Valentina Carrasco

Valentina Carrasco Director

Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, Valentina Carrasco studied music, dance, and literature before continuing her work in film and video in Paris. Since 2000, she has collaborated with La Fura dels Baus. Together with Àlex Ollé, she has created landmark productions, notably Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre and Enescu’s Œdipe.

Her independent work includes a new production of the Ring in Buenos Aires; La Strada in Antwerp and Ghent; Michaels Reise um die Erde in Warsaw; The Turn of the Screw in Lyon; Don Giovanni in Perm (Golden Mask Award); Respighi’s La Belle au bois dormant in Strasbourg; Proserpina, Carmen, and Les Vêpres siciliennes in Rome; The Magic Flute in Trieste; A Quiet Place in Vienna; Gianni Schicchi at the Puccini Festival; Aida in Macerata; Simon Boccanegra in Parma; and La Favorite in Bergamo (Abbiati Prize).

Among her more recent productions are La Fille du Far-West in Turin, La Battaglia di Legnano in Parma, Lucrezia Borgia in Rome, Fidelio in Bordeaux, La forza del destino in Zurich, and Luisa Miller in Valencia. Her production of Nixon in China at the Opéra national de Paris was nominated for Best New Production at the International Opera Awards.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Collaboration on staging – The Magic Flute, 2005; Bluebeard’s Castle, 2007; Il Trovatore, 2016 | Nixon in China, 2023.

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