Laura Scozzi - director and choreographer

Laura Scozzi lives in France. She studied at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and later at Ecole de Mimodrame Marcel Marceau de Paris while studying also Sociology and, her great passion, Photography. In 1994, she founded the company “Opinioni in Movimento”, directing several productions combining dance, text and singing. As a guest choreographer, she created The 7 Deadly Sins for the ballet of the Opera de Paris and My Relationships With Men Were Never Very Clear for the Junior Ballet de Cannes. In 1999, she started using Hip-Hop style in Étant donné la conjoncture actuelle and continued in 2000 in the musical A Chacun son Serpent by Boris Vian. Other creations include: Sol à sol avec poids, Quelque part par là and her latest creation Barbe Neige et les 7 petits cochons au bois dormant, which is still on tour and is currently having great success both in public and press. In opera, theater and film, she created choreographies for directors such as Jean-Louis Grinda, Emmanuelle Bastet, Coline Serreau, Jean-Michel Ribes, Matthieu Poirot-Delpech. She works regularly with Laurent Pelly. In 2008, Laura Scozzi directed her first opera Benvenuto Cellini at Staatstheater Nürnberg. The following year, in 2009, she directed The Magic Flute (Staatstheater Nürnberg and Opera de Bordeaux) and in 2011 Il viaggio a Reims (Staatstheater Nürnberg). This production was nominated for Der Faust Preis as "best opera direction".

Other productions as director include Orpheus in der Unterwelt (Opera Bern, Opera de Bordeaux, Staatstheater Nürnberg and Opera de Marseille) and Les Indes Galantes (Théâtre du Capitole, Opera de Bordeaux, Staatstheater Nürnberg).

Plans include: L’Italiana in Algeri at the Opera de Toulouse and at the Staatstheater Nürnberg; La Fille du Régiment (as choreographer) at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Akhnaten at the Theater Bonn; Barbe – Neige et les sept petits cochons au bois dormant at the Grand Opera de Genève and tournée