SUPPORTING INNOVATION IN OPERA AND BALLET IN EUROPE
FEDORA announces 34 shortlisted projects (9 opera, 9 ballet, 10 education and 6 digital projects), from 20 countries including 110 cultural organisations and partners and involving over 200 artists for the 7th edition of the FEDORA Platform FEDORA Prizes. The general audience can vote online (fedora-platform.com) until Press Release February 26th for their favourite projects. In parallel, the expert jury will nominate projects which will have the opportunity to run fundraising February 2021 campaigns in spring 2021 on the FEDORA Platform. The project with the most votes from the audience in each category will get the chance to fundraise alongside the project nominated by the jury. The winners will be announced in June during the Award Ceremony.
A EUROPEAN NETWORK FEDORA encourages innovation and creativity in opera and ballet through an international Prizes competition initiated under the presidency of Jérôme-François Zieseniss in 2014, as a tribute to Rolf Liebermann. The network federates 95 opera houses, festivals, ballet companies and friends associations in 25 countries, as well as individuals, corporate donors and foundations to create a sustainable ecosystem between the cultural and economic sector guaranteeing the future of opera and ballet.
A UNIQUE EUROPEAN PLATFORM (www.fedora-platform.com) Thanks to 2 million euros of co-funding of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, FEDORA harnesses the digital shift to showcase artistic works-in-progress on its European Platform. Thereby it reaches out to a new generation of people, allowing them to promote and support new operas and ballets online. IMPACT €1.5M private funding invested in innovative opera and ballet projects 18 new opera and ballet projects supported 67 co-producing cultural institutions involved +400 performances +500,000 spectators including more than 100,000 young people +65,000 votes since 2018 +€69,000 raised during the Fundraising Phases since 2018 +50% of users of the platform are between 18 and 44 years old
EUROPEAN ONLINE GIVING SYSTEM In 2020, our European initiative became the first non-profit organisation alongside Common Goal in Europe to test Transnational Giving Europe’s new online transnational giving system, thanks to the co-funding of Creative Europe. Since the launch of this new online platform that facilitates cross-border giving and boosts philanthropy in Europe, already 26 non-profit organisations in the healthcare, education, sports and cultural sectors have been using the solution and have been able to generate around €80,000 within 6 months. AWARDS In 2017, FEDORA was awarded with the “Philanthropy Award” during the International Opera Awards. FEDORA was nominated in 2019 as “European Cultural Investor of the year” at the European Cultural Brand Awards. In 2019, Edilia Gänz, director of FEDORA, was selected by Forbes Magazine as one of the «30 under 30» best young cultural managers in Europe. In 2020, Edilia Gänz was selected by Ms Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth to be featured among the #EUwomen4future campaign. Opera Shortlist 2021
Prize Money: €75,000
Innocence Elsewhere Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Straymaker (France) (Ireland) Composer - Kaija Saariaho Composer & Librettist - Michael Gallen Librettist - Sofi Oksanen Conductor - Fiona Monbet Conductor - Susanna Mälkki Director - Tom Creed Stage Director - Simon Stone Librettists - Annemarie Ni Churreain, Dylan Coburn Gray
Alexina B. Beauty and the Seven Beasts Gran Teatre del Liceu The Opera Story (Spain) (United Kingdom) Composer - Raquel Garcia Tomas Composers - Vahan Salorian, Lewis Murphy, Alex Woolf, Dramaturge - Irène Gayraud Lucie Treacher, Sasha Scott, Jude Obermuller, James Stage Director - Marta Pazos Garner Librettists - Dominic Kimberlin, Jennifer L. Williams, Louis Rembges, Anna Pool, Annie Jenkins, Tom Powell, Ellie Taylor The Time of our Singing Director - James Hurley La Monnaie / De Munt Conductor - Berrak Dyer (Belgium) Composer - Kris Defoort Conductor - Kwamé Ryan Manga for lovers Librettist - Peter van Kraaij Théâtre du Châtelet Stage Director - Ted Huffman (France) Composer - Olga Neuwirth Librettist - Barry Gifford ZELLE, Wenn es dunkel wird Conductor - Matthias Pintscher LOD muziektheater Stage Director - Yuval Sharon
(Belgium) Composer & Director - Jamie Man Text - Peter Stamm Soprano - Natascha Young The Witches Seed Countertenor - Steve Katona Tones on the Stones Nōh singer - Ryoko Aoki (Italy) Musical execution - Asko Schönberg Composer - Stewart Copeland Librettist - Jonathan Moore Creative partner - Chrissie Hynde Like flesh Immersive video sets - Edvige Faini Opéra de Lille Director - Gianni Marras (France) Music - Sivan Eldar Librettist - Cordelia Lynn Computer music design - Augustin Muller Musical direction - Maxime Pascal Stage direction - Silvia Costa
(In alphabetical order of the lead company)
OPERA JURY 2021
Laura Berman Aviel Cahn Kasper Holten Sophie de Lint Anna Maria Meo Intendant General Director CEO Director General Director Staatsoper Hannover Grand Théâtre de Genève Royal Danish Theatre Dutch National Opera Fondazione Teatro (Germany) (Switzerland) (Denmark) (Netherlands) Regio di Parma (Italy)
Nicholas Payne Birgitta Svendén Director General and Artistic Director Opera Europa Royal Swedish Opera (Sweden) Chair of the Jury
In collaboration with With the support of Ballet Shortlist 2021
Prize Money: €50,000
Les Saltimbanques Peeping Tom / La Visita (working title) Ballet du Capitole Fondazione I Teatri (France) Choreographer - Kader Belarbi (Italy) Choreographer - Gabriela Carrizo Composer - Sergio Tomassi Sound Designer - Raphaëlle Latini Costume Designer - Elsa Pavanel Set Designer - Amber Vandenhoeck Set Designer - Coralie Lèguevaque
Hotel Futuristic Space Lovers Ballet Birmingham Royal Ballet Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theatre (Ukraine) (United Kingdom) Choreographer - Delphine Attal Choreographer - Morgann Runacre-Temple Composer - Didier Marouani Composer - Mikael Karlsson Artistic Director - Bogdan Strutynskyi Set Designer - Sami Fendall Creative Associate / Dance Film Maker - Jessica Wright ROOTS (working title) Mille et une danses (pour 2021) National Opera of Ukraine CCN de Tours (Ukraine) Project Leader - Petro Chupryna (France) Choreographer - Ksenia Zvereva Choreographer - Thomas Lebrun Lighting Designer - Jacopo Pantani Lighting Designer - Françoise Michel Costume and Decoration Designer - Polina Panchenko 15 dancers Set Designer - Asia Kravchuk
Coppélia in the digital age On Bach Edinburgh International Festival Dansens Hus (United Kingdom) Artistic Director, Scottish Ballet - Christopher Hampson (Sweden) Choreographer - Tilman O’Donnell Choreographers - Morgann Runacre-Temple, Jessica Wright Composer - Johannes Helberger Dramaturg - Jeff James Costume Designer - Jenny Nordberg Festival Director - Fergus Linehan Lighting Designer - Thomas Zamolo
Raymonda English National Ballet (United Kingdom) Direction and Choreography (after Marius Petipa) - Tamara Rojo Composer - Alexander Glazunov Music Adaptation - Gavin Sutherland Dramaturge - Lucinda Coxon
(In alphabetical order of the lead company)
BALLET JURY 2021
Ted Brandsen Aurélie Dupont Laurent Hilaire Sara-Nora Krysteva Director Director of Dance Director Artistic Director of the Ballet Dutch National Ballet Paris Opera Ballet Stanislavsky Ballet Sofia National Opera and Ballet (Netherlands) (France) (Russia) (Bulgaria)
Ingrid Lorentzen Nicholas Payne Benoit Swan Pouffer Artistic Director Director Artistic Director Norwegian National Ballet Opera Europa Rambert (Norway) (United Kingdom) Chair of the Jury
In collaboration with With the support of Education Shortlist 2021
Prize Money: €50,000
Arcadia - Academy for Music & Theater in Silesia Dance training for people with a disability Academia Ars Augusta Platform-K (Germany) (Belgium) Artistic Director - Eleni Ioannidou Artistic Director - Inge Lattré Conductor - Enrique Gomez-Cabrero Fernandez Education Specialist - Frauke Seynnaeve Stage Director - Piotr Jedrzejas Teacher - Marie Kuijken Pocket Opera Royal Swedish Opera A song - a life (Sweden) Den Jyske Opera/Danish National Opera Composer - Daniel Nelson (Denmark) Librettist - Irena Kraus Composers - Søren Møller, Michael Betteridge Librettist - Cecilie Eken We are musicians Stara Zagora State Opera Dalia - A community opera (Bulgaria) Garsington Opera Composer - Victor Krumov (United Kingdom) Education Specialists - Yova Petkova, Iglika Petkova Artistic Director - Karen Gillingham Set Designer - Denis Ivanov Composer - Roxanna Panufnik Stage Director - Uschi Horner Librettist - Jessica Duchen Refugee & Activist - Gulwali Passarlay Conductor - Douglas Boyd Synapses - The point of contact Wexford Festival Opera (Ireland) Carmen and the other extraordinary women Composer - Andrew Synnott L’Albero Stage Director - Rosetta Cucchi (Italy) Video Artists - Roberto Recchia, Stefania Panighini Deaf artist, Opera narrator - Consuelo Agnesi Music Teacher - Giuseppina Maria Gelosa Librettist - Andrea Ciommiento Utoperas - a participatory youth opera in Set Designer - Rita Orlando series format Wiener Staatsoper (Austria) Pitch, please! Education Director - Krysztina Winkel Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie Head of Dance - Monica Delgadillo-Aguilar (France) Music Director - Andy Icochea Artistic Director - Chloé Kobuta Project Dramaturge - Valentin Lewisch Illustrator - Kiihwan Lim Project Manager - Audrey Brahimi Writer - Danielle Courtenay, Mia Mandineau
(In alphabetical order of the lead company)
EDUCATION JURY 2021
Vania Cauzillo Bernard Foccroulle Anthony Heidweiller Birgitte Holt-Nielsen Steering Committee Member Former Director Artistic Director Librettist and RESEO La Monnaie / De Munt and Festival Vocal Statements Freelance producer d’Aix-en-Provence (Denmark) (Belgium/France)
Chair of the Jury
Anne-Kathrin Ostrop Panaghis Pagoulatos Lauri Pokkinen Head of Education Director of Artistic Programming Audience Outreach & Social Responsibility Komische Oper Berlin & Casting Manager (Germany) Greek National Opera Finnish National Opera and Ballet (Greece) (Finland)
In collaboration with With the support of a
Private Foundation Digital Shortlist 2021
Prize Money: €50,000
Toulouse-Lautrec Solastalgia Ballet du Capitole Poznań Opera House (France) Choreographer - Kader Belarbi (Poland) Composer – Rafał Zapała Composer - Bruno Coulais Librettist – Michał Krawczak Film Director - Luc Riolon Conductor – Grzegorz Wierus Set Designer - Sylvie Olivé Stage Directors – Magda Szpecht, Marike Splint, Travis Preston Out of the Ordinary Irish National Opera Totality in Parts, a reenactment (Ireland) Royal Swedish Opera Composer - Finola Merivale Director - Jo Mangan (Sweden) Choreographer - Lukas Timulak Technical Consultant - Camille Donegan Set Designer - Peter Bilak Outreach Producer - James Bingham Composer - Volker Bertelmann Video Artist - Hektor Salgado Motion Designer - Jeroen Barendse Opera on Brainwaves Muzi a Zeny (Belgium) Fashion Tech Designer - Jasna Rokegem Singer - Elise Caluwaers
Viviscim - The 360° making of an opera performance Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie (France) Artistic Director - Mahana Delacour Designer - Linus Carlson Developers - Aurélia Garnier, Dennis Dunn
(In alphabetical order of the lead company)
DIGITAL JURY 2021
Christopher Katharina Jeschke Emelie de Jong Yasuko Kobayashi Tod Machover Hampson Secretary General Head of Arts Senior Producer Composer, Inventor, Artistic Director IMZ International Music + Department NHK Professor of Music & Scottish Ballet Media Centre ARTE France (Japan) Media and director of the (United Kingdom) (France) Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group Peter Maniura Ulrich Schrauth MIT Media Lab Director Artistic Director (United States of IMZ Academy VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts America) (United Kingdom) Festival XR & Immersive Programmer Chair of the Jury BFI London Film Festival - UK (Germany/United Kingdom)
In collaboration with With the support of SPECIAL THANKS
CONTACT
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