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Cecilia LIGORIO

Stage Director
Cecilia Ligorio was born in Verona, Italy. She graduated very young at the National Academy of Dramatic Art "Silvio d'Amico\" and she concluded her academic studies at the Institut de Teatre of Barcelona. Her interests are divided between language interpreting, directing and dramaturgy. Her greatest passion is to create a semantic relationship between music theater and dance. She studied philosophy and music.
She began her career as an actress with D. Walcott (Nobel Prize for Literature),
P. Tosar, R. Simó, T. Rossi, among others.
In 2005 she started working in opera when she collaborated with the Ensemble Nacional de Música Contemporánea de España. She has collaborated with the Palau de la Musica in Valencia since 2007, dealing with the programming of \"music for the family.\" In few years she has becoming to work in many different theatres and Festivals around the word (Teatro La Fenice, Venezia; Teatro Massimo, Palermo; Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino, Firenze; Teatro Regio, Torino; Palau de la Música, Valencia; Theatre de Varietes, Paris; Bare Opera, New York City; Les Halles, Bruxelles… among others)
In 2009 she participated with P. Tosar and Albert Told to the opening of Circol Maldà in Barcelona. In 2010 she took part in the creation of the company IfHuman with G. Saitta and a collective of artists based in Les Halles, Brussels. She appeared as a performer in Fear and Desire, Yes no Maybe Ne parlez pas d’Amour and she directed the show Corregidor y la Molinera by De Falla,
She has directed very different kind of repertoire from baroque to belcanto, including muiscals, Zarzuela and contemporary operas.
She has been the associate director of A. Rigola, artistic director of the Biennale for Madama Butterfly (Teatro La Fenice Venezia) and John Turturro for Rigoletto, (Teatro Massimo of Palermo and Teatro Regio of Turin)
In the few years she has directed Baccanali by A. Steffani, Cambiale di Matrimonio and Il Barbiere di Siviglia by G. Rossini , Giulietta e Romeo by Vaccaj, the opening opera of Festival della Valle d'Itria and the integral version of Semiramide by Rossini for Teatro la Fenice. Italiana in Algeri for Fondazione Teatro Lirico Marche,Turandot for Teatro la Fenice (premiere 10th May) and she opened the new season in Firenze with the world premiere of Fernando Cortes by Spontini.
As a librettist, she has produced several works: Caravaggio Rubato (music by G. Sollima – Teatro Massimo, Palermo – edited by Ricordi), Oltre la Porta (music by C. Boccadoro, Festival Stresa- edited by Ricordi), Shi (music by C. Boccadoro, Macerata Opera Festival- edited by Sonzogno), Un cuscino di Nuvole azzurre (music by C. Boccadoro - edited by Ricordi)
She is actually working on a new dramaturgy based on the Tudor Tetralogy by Donizetti for the La Monnaie in Bruxelles (season 2020/21).