Rodula is an Athens born, Paris trained, London based, international opera director.
Plans for the 2024-2025 season include new productions of La forza del destino for the Greek National Opera, of La bohème for Malmö Opera and of The Turn of the Screw and Roméo et Juliette to be announced soon, as well as revivals of her productions of La traviata for Norwegian Opera in Oslo and Opera Holland Park in London and Madama Butterfly for Rahvusooper Estonia in Tallinn.
Engagements for the 2023-2024 season included new productions of La traviata for Norwegian Opera in Oslo,
Rusalka for Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège, La Bohème for Minesotta Opera, Nabucco for Savonlinna Opera Festival,
La Fanciulla del West for Opera Hedeland in Denmark and revivals of her productions of La cenerentola at the Olympia Theatre in Athens and Madama Butterfly for Rahvusooper Estonia and Teatro Sociale di Como,
Fondazione Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, Fondazione Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli di Cremona,
Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca.
Engagements for the 2022- 2023 season included: Ariadne auf Naxos for Opera North in Leeds (and on tour in Nottingham, Newcastle and Manchester, UK), Vanessa for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, USA, Andrea Chénier for Theater St Gallen, Switzerland, Madama Butterfly for Fondazione del Teatro Grande di Brescia.
Work includes: Il barbiere di Siviglia and Ariadne auf Naxos (GöteborgsOperan, Sweden),
Chausson's Le Roi Arthus (Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Austria), Aida and Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Hedeland, Denmark), Carmen (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, USA), La clemenza di Tito (Bergen Nasjonale Opera, Norway), Massenet's Don Quichotte, Barber's Vanessa, Leoni's L'oracolo and Giordano's Mala vita (Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland), Un ballo in maschera, La traviata and Queen of Spades (Opera Holland Park, UK), Un ballo in maschera (Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Germany), Guillaume Tell (Victorian Opera, Australia), Pagliacci (Teatro Nacional São Carlos, Portugal), La cenerentola (Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Italy), Tosca (Xi'an Concert Hall, China), Cosi fan tutte and La cenerentola (Greek National Opera, Greece), , Massenet's Le portrait de Manon, Smythe's Fête galante, Rota's I due timidi, Martinu's Ariane and Alexandre bis, Stradella's San Giovanni Battista and Arne's The Cooper (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK), Vaughan- Williams's Riders to the Sea, Holst's Savitri and Smetana's The Bartered Bride (British Youth Opera, UK), Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Scottish Opera, UK), a new version of Carmen (London's King’s Head Theatre, UK), a staged version of Schumann's Dichterliebe (Royal Opera House - Linbury Studio, UK), Where is The Love a devised youth opera (Arcola Theatre, UK), Haydn's L'isola disabitata
(Royal Opera House - Linbury Studio, UK and Hobart Baroque, Tasmania, Australia).
Rodula is the recipient of the 2022 ARGO award for "Arts and Culture". She was nominated "Director of the Year" in the 2019 International Opera Awards. Her Opera Hedeland production of Lucia di Lammermoor was nominated for "Best Opera Production" in the CPH Awards (Denmark 2019). Her productions of Massenet's Don Quichotte and Barber’s Vanessa for the Wexford Festival Opera were both nominated in the Irish Times Theatre Awards in the “Best Opera” category (Ireland 2020 and 2017). She was nominated for two Helpmann Awards (Australia 2013) in the "Best Opera Director" and "Best Opera Production" categories for her production of L'isola disabitata presented at the Hobart Baroque Festival.
She has directed revivals of Royal Opera House - Covent Garden productions in London, Sydney, Gothenburg and Valencia.
Rodula is a former member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden. She trained as a violinist at the Mousikoi Orizontes Conservatory in Athens, studied Musicology at La Sorbonne University in Paris, Opera Staging at Paris 8 - Saint Denis University and joined the Laboratoire d'Etude du Mouvement of the prestigious International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq.