rocafilm was founded in 2010 by Carmen Maria Zimmermann and Roland Horvath. The company produces documentaries and video designs for opera and theatre.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Mnemonic (2024), a co-production with Complicité

Other theatre includes: Giulio Cesare, La bohème, Falstaff (also Teatro della Scala), La Cenerentola, Der ferne Klang and Alcina at the Whitsun Festival and Salzburger Festspiele; Idomeneo and Orlando at Theater an der Wien; Die Zauberflöte and Aquagranda at Teatro La Fenice, Venice; Rigoletto at the National Opera, Amsterdam; La damnation de Faust at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Palau de les Arts in Valencia; Don Pasquale and Bérénice at Opera National de Paris; Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci and Die Walküre for Salzburg Easter Festival; Altes Testament at Schauspielhaus Graz; Heart Chamber at Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Salome at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera, New York); Jenufa at ROH; Madama Butterfly at Oper Köln; Don Karlos for Schauspiel Köln; La Cenerentola at Semper Oper in Dresden; Bluthaus at the Bayerische Staatsoper (2022 Musiktheaterpreis for Best International Production); Il Viaggio, Dante at Festival Aix En Provence; Don Carlo at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Semele at Bayerische Staatsoper; Doppelgänger at Park Avenue Armory in New York; Turandot at the Staatsoper, Vienna; Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Don Quichotte at Paris Opera; and Khovanshchina at State Opera, Berlin

Film

Zwischen Tag und Traum and Sister Heart

Awards

La damnation de Faust – 2017 Premio Abbiati Award for Best Production

Aquagranda – Special Prize at the 2017 Premio Abbiati Awards

(Published June 2024.)