THE SEVEN LAST WORDS PROJECT is an immersive string quartet performance that interweaves seven recently commissioned works by living American composers Jessica Meyer, Colin Jacobsen, Nico Muhly, Tania León*, Reena Esmail, Paola Prestini, and Caroline Shaw* with Franz Joseph Haydn's nine-movement masterpiece The Seven Last Words of Christ. Site-specific digital projection design by Camilla Tassi creates an immersive visual narrative during the performance, adding an expansive dimension that enhances the audience’s experience of the program's sweeping narrative.
* = Pulitzer Prize Winners

The digital projections created by Camilla Tassi are site-specific and customized for each performance venue. Camilla Tassi has created projections for PROTOTYPE Festival, MASS MoCA, Apollo’s Fire, Berlin Opera Academy, and Yale University School of Drama. Examples of Camilla Tassi’s projection design can be found here: https://www.camillatassi.com/design

 
 
 

Digital Projection Design by Camilla Tassi for The Seven Last Words Project

 
 
 
 

ABOUT CAMILLA TASSI
Born in Florence, Italy, Camilla Tassi is a designer and musician interested in the production of early and contemporary music performances. Her work as a projection designer includes Apollo's Fire's opera tour of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, including performances at Zellerbach Hall (Berkeley, CA) and Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor, MI). She has designed video projections for staged works such as Pollock's Stinney: An American Execution (PROTOTYPE Festival, NYC), Mozart's Magic Flute (Berlin Opera Academy), Scarlatti's Il Primo Omicidio (Yale Voxtet, CT), Glass' The Fall of the House Usher for Arthur Yorinks (MASS MoCA, MA), Carissimi's Jepthe (Hopkins Center for the Arts, NH), Tesori's Fun Home (Yale School of Drama), as well as for recitals, chamber music, and theater. https://www.camillatassi.com/design