The film and video production company rocafilm was founded in 2010 by Carmen Zimmermann and Roland Horvath. Their work focuses on documentaries and video productions for opera and theatre. In the field of opera, they have worked with the Salzburg Festival (Giulio Cesare, 2012; Charlotte Salomon by Marc-André Dalbavie, 2014; Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci, 2015; La Walkyrie, 2017). Since 2012 they have been working with Damiano Michieletto, notably on La Bohème, Falstaff and La Cenerentola at the Salzburg Festival, Idomeneo at the Theater an der Wien, The Magic Flute and Aquagranda at La Fenice in Venice, Rigoletto at the Amsterdam National Opera and The Damnation of Faust at the Rome Opera. They also collaborate regularly with Claus Guth: Sémélé at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Doppelgänger at Park Avenue in New York, Turandot at the Vienna State Opera, Orlando at the Theater an der Wien, Herzkammer at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Salome at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House in London, Bluthaus at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Il Viaggio, Dante at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Don Carlo at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. In 2020, they worked on Madame Butterfly at the Cologne Opera and collaborated with Jürgen Flimm on Schiller's Don Karlos at the Cologne Schauspiel. In 2021 they worked with Robert Carsen on Le Triomphe du temps et de la désillusion for the Salzburg Festival and with Damiano Michieletto on La Cenerentola at the Dresden Semperoper. In 2022 they created the videos for The Barber of Seville directed by Rolando Villazón at the Salzburg Festival.In 2024, they created the videos for Carmen directed by Carrie Cracknell at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, collaborated with Simon McBurney on a new production of Mnemonic at the National Theatre in London, and with R. B. Schlather for Macbeth at the Frankfurt Opera.At the Opéra national de Paris: Don Pasquale, 2018; Bérénice, 2018; Don Quichotte, 2024

Roland Horvath / rocafilm Videographer