Joy in art of directing on stage Alita Baldi

BIO Born in Buenos Aires, Alita Baldi leaves Argentina for Paris where she studies theater and fine art. Very soon her interest turns to directing. Intensely enthusiastic about music and theater, her first natural inclination is to become involved in creating musical performances. Among works from the lyrical repertory she directs Haydn's "L'Anima del Filosofo ossia Orfeo e Euridice" conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire, Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel" and Ullmann's "Kaiser von Atlantis" in the Théâtre Déjazet in Paris, Bizet’s « Carmen » at the Grand Théâtre in Bordeaux ,conducted by Alain Lombard, she then produces Handel’s « Hercules » for both the Atelier Lyrique de Turcoing and for the Montpellier Opera, where it is conduted by Jean-Claude Malgoire ; then Bellini’s «I Capuletti e i Montecchi » at the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon, conducted by Maurizio Benini; she also directs Vivaldi’s « Juditha Triumphans » for the Lille Opera, in a production conducted by by Jean-Claude Malgoire, which is filmed for Arte. In 2000, in collaboration with the Argentine composer Oscar Strasnoy, Alita Baldi creates « EPHEMERA » , a commission by Radio France and the Musée d’Orsay. With Andrea Cohen she creates, to music by Cage, Kagel and Satie, »Piano(d)rame » ,a show involving theatre, music, painting and performance, and which is performed at the Déjazet and at the Café de la Danse in Paris. For Radio France she produces Britten’s « Golden Vanity » with the children’s choir of the Maîtrise de Radio France. She produces Mozart’s « Cosi fan tutte » with the young singers of the Paris Opera’s Centre de Formation Lyrique, at the Amphithéâtre at the Bastille Opera and at the Chorégies d’Orange, a Mozart workshop at the Studio Bastille and with them she creates and produces in 2004 « Amar y soñar, balade dans une Espagne imaginaire » at the Amphithéâtre at the Bastille Opera.