CHOREOGRAPHER – DIRECTOR – PRODUCER Anna Cuocolo

Professor of Performing Arts and Film Studies at the Francesco Venezze Conservatory of Rovigo.

She obtained her degrees at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome in Painting and subsequently at

the National Academy of Dance in Rome.

She studied screenwriting; among her teachers were Age, Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Mario Monicelli,

and Ennio Morricone.

She is the recipient of the Positano “Léonide Massine” Award for the Art of Dance (2003).

She is included in the International Dictionary of Dance by Alberto Testa, Gremese edition.

Creator of important and successful works in which she combines opera and dance into a single

expressive language, in 1995 Anna was invited to create a choreography for His Holiness Pope

John Paul II in the prestigious Sala Nervi in Vatican City. She subsequently created Pathos ed

Estasi, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and later presented at the Bellas Artes Theatre

in Madrid. At the Castel Sant’Angelo Museum, with In Nomine Patris, Anna then began her artistic

path within national and international museums and architectural spaces. For the Municipality of

Rome, she staged Farinelli, Estasi in Canto in the evocative setting of the Ara Pacis Museum, with

countertenor Antonio Giovannini and international étoile Giuseppe Picone; the production was also

presented at the Real Academia de San Fernando in Madrid and at the Court Theatre of the Royal

Palace of Caserta. She later created Salomé – Ultimo Atto at the Museum of Rome, Palazzo

Braschi. She subsequently directed the opera Tosca, which opened the opera season of the

Summer Reggia Opera Festival at the Royal Palace of Colorno (Parma, 2022). In 2023, she

directed the opera La prova di un’opera seria by Francesco Gnecco at the Teatro Sociale of

Rovigo.

Her career spans from Italy to Spain, from Denmark to Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and

extends to Scotland, Cuba, and the United States, including successful performances in Miami,

San Francisco, and Baltimore. She has directed some of the most important international étoiles,

including Toni Candeloro, étoile of the Zurich Opera, in Pathos ed Estasi at the Edinburgh

International Fringe Festival and Passioni, Sangue e Anima at the Théâtre des Capucines in

Luxembourg; Rosario Suarez, étoile of the National Ballet of Cuba, in the production Anna

Pavlova, dialoghi dell’anima (2000) at the Teatro Centro de la Villa in Madrid; later the international

étoile Alessandro Molin in 2003 and, in 2017, Davide Dato, étoile of the Vienna State Opera,

protagonist of the film Insane Love, produced in collaboration with Rai Cinema and directed by

Eitan Pitigliani, for which she curated the choreography. The film won numerous awards, including

the prestigious Violetta d’Oro at the Parma International Music Film Festival (2019), and entered

the Oscar Qualifying circuit with selection at the Rhode Island International Film Festival (USA).

In cinema, she has repeatedly worked as assistant director to Pupi Avati (Il cuore altrove, Gli amici

del bar Margherita, Il Fulgore di Dony). She choreographed the television series La Vita Promessa

(seasons 1 and 2), directed by Ricky Tognazzi and produced by Rai Cinema, and in 2019

choreographed the film Rome in Love, produced by Cattleya and directed by Eric Bross. On the

occasion of the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival, she was a guest for the presentation of the

film Insane Love, and subsequently at the 77th edition for the presentation of the film Lettere a mia

Figlia by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo. She was also at the Italian Pavilion during the 75th edition of the

Cannes Film Festival, as a guest of the Social World Film Festival, for the presentation of the new

project Formazione e Industria Cinematografica. In 2020, she created the work Orfeo ed Euridice

by C. W. Gluck for the film Quel Posto nel tempo, directed by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo and

produced by An.Tra.Cine in collaboration with the Rovigo Conservatory of Music. She later served

as associate producer of the film SISSY, directed by Eitan Pitigliani and co-produced by MOVI

Production for Rai Cinema, winner of numerous awards in Italy and abroad, including the Paris

International Film Festival, and entered the Oscar Qualifying circuit with selections at the 46th

Cleveland International Film Festival and the 40th edition of the Rhode Island International Film

Festival (USA). In 2025, she is associate producer and co-screenwriter with director Eitan Pitigliani

for the film L’Altro Te.