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02 February 2012: The Canadian Opera Company presents the Canadian premiere of acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Love from Afar (L’amour de loin), a haunting and vivid musical creation that has become one of the most performed and successful operas composed of this century.

11 June 2011: Roberto Vitalini for BASHIBA.com, Video Set Designer for the Opera Aida, produced by the Mariinsky Theatre.
L'opéra Aïda a été nommé quatre fois aux Golden Mask, qui récompense les arts de la scène russe.

29 January 2010: Roberto Vitalini for BASHIBA.com, Video Designer for the theatrical Show "Donka",
écriture et mise en scène par Daniele Finzi Pasca, première at the Mossovet Theatre, Moscow, Russia.

July 2009: Roberto Vitalini for BASHIBA.com, Video Designer for the Opera "L'Amour de Loin", première at ENO, London.
Opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, libretto by Lebanese-born writer Amin Maalouf, director Daniele Finzi Pasca.
 

quotes

"If I had seen nothing but the stunning Act IV sequence on board the ship headed for Tripoli, where the work of the other designers is joined by eloquent projections from Roberto Vitalini, I would have been able to go home content from the visual splendour... "
Richard Ouzounian, Theatre Critic, thestar.com
 
"Saariaho's writing works best describing images like the ocean crossing, one of the most brilliant scenes in this production
where light images are projected onto waving expanses of silk."
Anne Ozorio, Opera Today

press

• February 3, 2012
  TORONTOSUN.com
  by John Coulbourn
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• February 3, 2012
  The Globe and Mail
  Robert Everett-Green
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• February 2, 2012
  THESTAR.com
  by Richard Ouzounian
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• July 5, 2009
  Financial Times Europe
  | page 11 | by Andrew Clark
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• MAInDzine