Emmanuelle Cordoliani graduated from the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in 1998, after having worked with Stuart Seide, Stéphane Braunschweig and Mario Gonzalès.
She then entered the Nomade Institute of Directing, run by Josyane Horville.
There she founded Groupe 7, a workgroup in the form of experimentation for a vocal method of play for actors.
After leaving the CNSAD, Emmanuelle has taken on a triple activity of acting, directing and writing.
Emmanuelle often puts her pen to the service of musical mediation between major orchestras and young audiences. It is important for her to reconcile educational aspects with artistic integrity and to imagine entertainments which give pleasure to all generations.
An on-going collaboration with the Cité de la Musique led her to create certain operas (Alcina, Don Giovanni…) both in their full versions and in “young audience” formats of one hour.
She has also devoted herself to creating musical entertainments, sometimes collaborating with major orchestras: Haut comme trois Pom Pom Pom Pom with the Lille National Orchestra, Dessine-moi un Ravel! with the Bordeaux National Orchestra, Les Contes de Mélisse et Mo with the ONDIF, City Life by Steve Reich with the EIC, sometimes with renowned performers: Les très Longues Fiançailles de Robert et Clara Schumann in the company of pianist Eric Le Sage, Ascension en Ré Mineur (Bach / Pétrarque) with violinist Gordan Nikolic and Les Déserts Lieux (Correspondance Rilke, Pasternak, Tsvétaïéva / Préludes by Chopin and Rachmaninov) with pianist Alexandre Léger.
Since September 2002, Emmanuelle Cordoliani has been teaching lyric art at the Paris CNSM.
At the school and within the scope of her teaching, she has created and directed numerous projects: Esprits de Famille (musical variation on La Cerisaie by Tchékhov), Café et Mariage (two Secular Cantatas by Bach), Jours tranquilles à Pantin (extracts from La Bohème by Puccini and texts by Henry Miller), Folles journées! (operatic adaptation of the trilogy by Beaumarchais) directed by Alain Altinoglu, Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc, La Chauve Souris by Strauss, La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart, The Turn of the Screw by Britten…
Emmanuelle signed her first operatic productions at the Montpellier Opera: starting with Zaide by Mozart, with numerous revivals (Rouen Opera, Cité de la Musique…), then the Italiana in Algeri by Rossini, also given at the Massy Opera.
Regularly invited to the Empéri, Bach en Combrailles and Sevicq Brezice festivals, she has had the opportunity of pursuing creative work in the company of instrumentalists, at the same time as playwright and as performer.
She has met renowned artistes on the occasion of rare or atypical projects: Natalie Dessay (Pelléas et Mélisande), Lambert Wilson (Schumann-Clara-Brahms), the pianist Eric Lesage (Les très longues fiançailles de Robert et Clara Schumann), Jonathan Nott (City Life), the violinist Gordan Nikolic (Bach/Pétrarque), Nicolau de Figueiredo (Alcina), Kenneth Weiss (Athalie)…
She met with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in April 2007 for a acted, sung and masked Peer Gynt, in collaboration with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, received enthusiastically by the British Press.
During the 2008 / 2009 season, Emmanuelle revived Don Giovanni at the Limoges Opera (October 2008). Last February, she achieved remarkable success for her production of L’Amour Masqué by Messager staged at the Musée D’Orsay Auditorium, success equally acclaimed by numerous media (Le Figaro…). She then took on The Rape of Lucrezia by Britten at the CNSMDP (April 2009) using an innovative quadri-frontal set…
The 2009 / 2010 season will see her tackling important projects and eclectic repertories: Otello by Verdi (Limoges & Reims October / November 2009), Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart (Cité de la Musique, March 2010, with revivals in several Opera Houses), Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot (Musée d’Orsay Auditorium, May 2010), and the return to the EIC for the Rituel by Boulez…
During summer 2010, she took part in the European Academy of Music at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and made the revival of Tant qu’il est jour, a show about Robert Schumann's last years of life.
In 2011, she will create Reynaldo Hahn's Ô mon bel Inconnu at the Opéra Comique – Paris and a version of The Rite of Spring specially dedicated for younger audience at the Cité de la Musique – Paris.
NOVEMBER 2010
