ABOUT

Vanessa Codotti is an Italian director under 35 who works mainly with opera and site-specific performance.

 

His studies include Musicology at the University of Udine, Performing Arts at the University of Seville and Opera Direction at the Academy for Italian Opera in Verona.

 

As a director he made his debut in Spain in 2016 with a small production ofDido and Aeneas by H. Purcell for the Conservatory of Seville and in Scotland in 2019 withThe Traviata by G.Verdi for Fife Opera.

In Italy he made his debut in 2022 with a diptych composed ofThe driving school by Nino Rota eSinger, world premiere of Maurizio Agostini in Piazzale della Transapina in Gorizia and Nova Gorica as a show included in the official program "Go! 2025 European Capital of Culture" and broadcast on RAI.

In 2021 she was a finalist in the SOI Virtual Lyric Competition, creating a video for the LiedErlkonig, sung by soprano Gaja Pellizzari.

In 2022, together with my colleague Marialuisa Bafunno and the set designer Marina Conti, they will participate as a directing duo in the XII European Opera Prize with an unprecedented proposal for the operaThe Turn of the Screw, winning 4th prize at the final held at the Copenhagen Opera House. 

In 2023 the same team stagesThe Sleepwalker at the Teatro di Verzura of Castello di Spessa for the Piccolo Opera Festival, combining the languages of opera and site-specific together.

 

His experiences as assistant director, however, include theaters such as the Teatro G. Verdi in Trieste withTristan and Isolde by R.Wagner, the Arena di Verona  withAida by G. Verdi, the Teatro alla Scala withI see you, I hear you, I get lost by S. Sciarrino and Orphèe and Eurydyce by C.W. Gluck, and the Donizetti Festival withLa fille due Regiment.

In addition to being stage director for the Piccolo Opera Festival since 2021, he has also held this role for the Edinburgh Studio Opera, the New Generation Festival in Florence and the Teatro Salieri in Legnago.

 

At the same time, it collaborates with cultural associations in its region, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, and is committed to seeking new ways to carry forward a vision of sustainability of the artistic product, of inclusiveness, of cross-border cooperation and dialogue between different cultures. 

Among his interests is making the language of opera more usable and closer to any segment of the public, also finding innovative solutions to separate the opera from the theater building, researching new ways of staging even in unconventional spaces .

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From 2021, it offers sensorial and site-specific theater experiences. She wrote and created the project "4 Sentieri, on the trail of the women of the woods", to give new life to local fairy tales and legends in their places of origin, often centered on the female figure. Organize women's circles and workshops in natural spaces seeking a language of interaction between the body and nature. 

RealizeTales from the Elevator a series of performances and "happenings" in public and private elevators between Italy, France and Spain. Recently he has been approaching drama therapy.