Valentina Carrasco

Born in Buenos Aires, she trained in music, dance, and literature, and continued her studies in Paris, where she worked in film and video. Since 2000, she has collaborated with La Fura dels Baus on shows, theater, and opera. Together with Àlex Ollé, she created landmark productions such as Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and Enescu's Oedipe, presented in Brussels, London, and Buenos Aires. Her solo career includes milestones such as the new version of the Ring at the Teatro Colón and the choreography of Luc Van Hove's La Strada in Belgium. She has choreographed works such as The Turn of the Screw in Lyon, Don Giovanni in Perm, Die Zauberflöte in Trieste, as well as new productions of Rihm's Proserpina and Carmen for the Rome Opera.

Between 2018 and 2020, he conducted works by Bernstein, Rachmaninoff, and Verdi, including Les vêpres siciliennes at the Rome Opera House, which was nominated for the Opera Awards. After the pandemic, he resumed his European operatic career with Gianni Schicchi at the Puccini Festival. Since then, he has tackled operas such as Aida in Macerata, Simon Boccanegra in Parma and La Favorite in Bergamo, awarded the Abbiati Prize. In 2023 she debuted at the Paris Opera with Nixon in China and again received the Abbiati Prize for La Favorite. In 2024, he celebrated the Puccini year with La fanciulla del West, Turandot, and Gianni Schicchi, in addition to returning to the Verdi Festival with La battaglia di Legnano, has more recently conducted Lucrezia. Borgia in Rome, Fidelio in Bordeaux and La forza del destino in Zurich, consolidating a career that places her among the most relevant directors of today.