She was born to Todi and lives to Rome from when she moved there to study philosophy. In the early 1970s she met Elsa Morante to whom she owes, among many other things, the title and publication of her first book, Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo (Einaudi, 1974 ), which was followed by five other collections, also at Einaudi, of which the latest, Datura ( 2013), contains Tre risvegli. She has also written radio plays for RAI and an essay on Frida Kahlo that won her the De Sanctis Prize. In 2012 she published the catalog book Flighty matters (Quodlibet) with five poems and a story about fashion and, in collaboration with Diana Tejera, Al cuore fa bene far le scale, a book with a CD of poems and songs. In 2013 the Miscetti Gallery in Rome hosted an exhibition of his manuscripts, foils and lists, entitled_ I miei splendidi giorni tutti uguali_. In the same year at Farrar Straus and Giroux came out in a bilingual edition _My Poems Won't Change the World- Selected Poems _(1974 - 2006), with translations by distinguished American poets. Also translated into French, Spanish, German and various other languages, she has received numerous awards including Viareggio, Pasolini and Cardarelli. In 2003 the French government awarded her the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and in June this year she will receive from part of the American Academy of Rome the McKim Medal. She is currently working on a volume collection of her translations of Shakespeare for the theater(The Tempest, A Summer Night's Dream, Othello, and Twelfth Night), which will be released this summer by edizioni nottetempo.

He began to working very young to Naples in 1977, in the avant-garde climate of that period, founding the Falso Movimento group then to Teatri Uniti, a company aimed at bringing together Neapolitan artists of the new generation, with which he also made his films from independent. His first feature film, Morte di un matematico napoletano, won the Grand Jury Prize to Venice in '92. L'amore molesto ('95), Teatro di guerra ('98) and _L'odore del sangue ('03) were all presented to Cannes. He then made two films set in the 19th century, Noi credevamo in 2010, David di Donatello for best film, and Il giovane favoloso in 2014. Among his stage directions: Sophocles' Philoctetes ('87), Shakespeare's Richard II ('93), Fabrizia Ramondino's Earthquake with Mother and Daughter ('94), Aeschylus' The Seven Against Thebes ('96), Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (2000) and Oedipus to Colonus ('04), Raffaele Viviani's The Ten Commandments (2000), Enzo Moscato's L'opera segreta ('05), Falstaff, a Neapolitan workshop from Shakespeare ('07). In the opera repertoire he staged the entire Mozart-from Ponte trilogy - from Così fan tutte in 2000 with Claudio Abbado, to Don Giovanni in 2002, to Nozze di Figaro in 2006 - Lulu _di Berg ('01), _Matilde _by Shabran, Torvaldo and Dorliska, _Aureliano in Palmira _by Rossini (at ROF Pesaro 2004-'06-'14), Verdi's Un ballo in maschera with Antonio Pappano to London ('05), _Antigone _by Ivan Fedele at Maggio Musicale in Florence ('07), Falstaff and Macbeth by Verdi to Paris ('08-'15), Otello by Verdi to Tokyo ('09), Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci by Mascagni/Leoncavallo ('11), Luisa Miller and Verdi's Oberto ('12-'14), Giordano's La cena delle beffe ('16) at La Scala in Milan, _Fidelio _by Beethoven ('12) at Regio in Turin, Hans Werner Henza's I Bassaridi atOpera in Rome ('15). Since December 2007 Martone has been artistic director of the Teatro Stabile di Torino/National Theater.

Silvia Colasanti is present with her own compositions in major international musical institutions. Of fundamental importance for the construction of her poetics, between "material" taste of sound, strong lyricism and richness of registers, the collaboration with soloists and conductors of international caliber, such as Vladimir Yurovski, Yuri Bashmet, Salvatore Accardo, David Geringas, Nathalie Dessay, Massimo Quarta, Enrico Bronzi. He has written for the theater the melologue Orpheus. Flebile queritur lyra, performed from Maddalena Crippa, L'angelo del Liponard, an amorous delirium performed from Sandro Lombardi, Faust, a subjective tragedy in music on a text by F. Pessoa, commissioned and performed at the Accademia Chigiana from Ferdinando Bruni directed by Francesco Frongia, La Metamorfosi, on a libretto from Franz Kafka's short story of the same name and directed by Pier Luigi Pier'Alli, commissioned by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. On Remembrance Day, January 27, 2017, he performed Le imperdonabili, inspired by the figure of Etty Hillesum on a text by Guido Barbieri and directed by Alessio Pizzech. In 2016 it premiered at Spoleto's Festival dei 2Mondi Tre Risvegli, on a text by Patrizia Cavalli, directed by Mario Martone, starring Alba Rohrwacher. In 2017 he returns to Spoleto with Requiem. Stringeranno nei pugni una cometa, Oratorio per Soli, Coro e Orchestra, in memory of the victims of the earthquake in Central Italy, commissioned by the Spoleto Festival, on texts by Mariangela Gualtieri. The work was revived in several institutions and a CD from was released by Dynamic. In October 2017 he presented a new work for cello and strings written for David Geringas at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. In 2018 he inaugurated the Spoleto Festival withopera Minotauro, on a text by René De Ceccatty and Giorgio Ferrara, based on Dürrenmatt's short story of the same name, directed by Giorgio Ferrara. from this work was adapted into a melologue touring France and will conclude at the Philharmonie in Paris in 2020. In 2019, again for the Spoleto Festival, he will compose Proserpine, opera opera in two acts from Mary Shelley's play of the same name, directed by Giorgio Ferrara. A CD with his String Quartets from part of the Nous Quartet, will be released in August 2020 by Brilliant Classics. to November 2020 in Florence Cathedral is scheduled to perform Oltre l'azzurro, il sogno di Brunelleschi. Drama in Music for Actor, Chorus and Orchestra, on a text by Maria Grazia Calandrone, commissioned byOpera del Duomo - Santa Maria del Fiore. In 2013 she won the European Composer Award (Berlin) and was appointed by President of the Republic Napolitano Cavaliere della Repubblica; in 2017 she was appointed by President of the Republic Mattarella Ufficiale della Repubblica. Her works are published from Casa Ricordi.