Maria Mauti

Maria Mauti was born in Milan in 1974 and she graduated in Philosophy. She is a documentary filmmaker and since 2003 she has collaborated with the satellite channel, Classica that airs on Sky, writing and directing programs on contempo- rary Italian music, opera and dance.

She has made several documentaries on influential people in the arts and culture including Daniel Barenboim, Carolyn Carlson, Pina Bausch, Antonio Pappano, Bill Jones (documentary selected at the American Dance Festival), Fabio Vacchi and Ermanno Olmi, Azio Corghi and José Saramago, Alicia Alonso of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and Meredith Monk, to name a few.

This has given her the opportunity to collaborate with several institutions and organizations including Il Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Venice Biennale, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, the Maxxi Museum in Roma, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Auditorium Parco della Musica in   Rome.

Since 2011 she has collaborated with the Teatro Grande in Brescia on a series of short films about opera as part of the Dietro le quinte project and in 2013 she directs the documentary about the history of the Teatro Grande in Brescia called Memorie (Memories), shown as an installation piece in the grand hall of the theatre.

The film, l’Amatore (the Amateur), is her first feature- length film.

Filmography in our catalog