Roland Horvath for rocafilm

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.)