Rodula Gaitanou

(stage director)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Rodula is a former member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She trained as a violinist at the Mousikoi Orizontes Conservatory in Athens, studied Musicology at La Sorbonne University in Paris, Opera Staging at Paris 8 – Saint Denis University and joined the Laboratoire d’Etude du Mouvement of the prestigious International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Rodula Gaitanou was shortlisted in the category “Director of the Year” at the 2019 International Opera Awards. Rodula was nominated for two Helpmann Awards (Australia, 2013) in the “Best Opera Director” and “Best Opera Production” categories for her ROH production (Haydn’s “L’isola disabitata”) for the Hobart Baroque Festival. Her productions of Barber’s “Vanessa” and Massenet’s “Don Quixotte” at Wexford were nominated in the Irish Times Theatre Awards in the “Best Opera” category (Ireland 2017 and 2020). Her Opera Hedeland production of Verdi’s “Aida” was nominated for “Best Opera Production” in the CPH Awards (Denmark, 2019). Rodula is the recipient of the 2022 ARGO award for “Arts and Culture”. 

STAGINGS
Chausson’s “Le Roi Arthus” (Tiroler Festspiele Erl)
Verdi’s “Aida” (Opera Hedeland)
Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera” (Opera Holland Park, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater)
Verdi’s “La traviata” (Opera Holland Park, Norwegian Opera)
Puccini’s “Tosca” (Xi’an Concert Hall, China; Greek National Opera)
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” (Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia)
Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” (Opera Holland Park)
Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” (Opera Hedeland)
Bizet’s “Carmen” (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, London’s King’s Head Theatre)
Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” (Victorian Opera, Australia, Teatro Nacional São Carlos) 
Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” (Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Greek National Opera)
Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia” (GöteborgsOperan)  
Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” (GöteborgsOperan, Opera North)
Mozart’s “La clemenza di Tito” (Bergen Nasjonale Opera)
Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” (Greek National Opera)
Massenet’s “Don Quixotte” (Wexford Festival Opera)
Barber’s “Vanessa” (Wexford Festival Opera, Spoleto Festival in Charleston)
Leoni’s “L’oracolo” and “Mala vita” (Wexford Festival Opera)
Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” (Teatro Nacional São Carlos)
Haydn’s “L’isola disabitata” (Hobart Baroque Festival)
Martinů’s “Ariane” (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Martinů’s “Alexandre bis” (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Stradella’s “San Giovanni Battista” (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Arne’s “The Cooper” (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Vaughan William’s “Riders to the Sea” (British Youth Opera) 
Holst’s “Sāvitri” (British Youth Opera) 
Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” (British Youth Opera) 
Prokofiev’s “Betrothal in a Monastery” (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Scottish Opera) 
Giordano’s “Andrea Chenier” (Theatre St. Gallen)