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FEDORA Prizes, Winners

The curtain was lifted on 26 April 2025, revealing the Winners of the FEDORA Prizes Biennale 2025 at our Award Ceremony which took place in the beautiful setting of the Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna.

Thanks to a collaboration with Vialma, this inspiring celebration is now available online, from wherever you are, you can thus step into the spotlight and discover the groundbreaking projects shaping the future of performing arts.

Watch the Award Ceremony below and be inspired by this year's winners.

The Winners of the FEDORA Prizes Biennale 2025

The Curing Line

Led by Straymaker (Ireland)

Winner of the FEDORA Opera Prize 2025 (100 000€)

Supported by The Silver Company, in collaboration with Opera Europa

The Curing Line is a groundbreaking multi-platform opera project by Irish music-theatre company Straymaker which explores themes of healing, interconnectivity, loss of culture and environmental collapse through the story of a woman who inherits a life-saving cure but loses her capacity to use it.

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Gentleman Jack

Led by Northern Ballet (United Kingdom)

Winner of the FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize 2025 (100 000€)

Supported by VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, in collaboration with Opera Europa

A major new ballet based on the life of Anne Lister (1791-1840), the inspiration for the hugely popular and critically acclaimed BBC series, Gentleman Jack. Often referred to as ‘the first modern lesbian’, Lister was a fiercely independent diarist, landowner and business owner, who lived and loved in Yorkshire – where Northern Ballet creates, performs and tells stories to resonate with audiences today.

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Yallah Danse!

Led by ECO Company (France)

Winner of the FEDORA Education Prize 2025

(50 000€)

Supported by CARLARA International, in collaboration with RESEO

Yallah danse! is a cooperation project aimed at Algerian youth, focusing on training and creation within the dance sector, structured around the development of two pieces of choreography.

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YUM!

Led by Studio M.A.R.S (Austria)
Winner of the FEDORA Digital Prize 2025

(50 000€)

Supported by KEARNEY, in collaboration with the IMZ International Music + Media Center

YUM! is a participatory XR music theater that blends immersive dining with grotesque beauty, dark humor, and pioneering tech-woven narratives. Step into a vivid, absurd universe where surreal storytelling and uncanny scenarios unfold. YUM! delves into climate change, food shortages, class, identity, and self-obsession, offering a multi-sensory spectacle that reflects on the human condition in exaggerated yet eerily familiar ways—all within a world of absurdism and authentic artificiality.

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HÔTEL MOCTEZUMA

Led by Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier Occitanie (France)
Audience Award Winner 2025

(10 000€)

Co-funded by the European Union, and Cecilia Erös & Yannick Willemin

Inspired by Vivaldi's opera "Montezuma" (1733) and Alejo Carpentier's novel "Concierto Barroco" (1974), "Hôtel Moctezuma" is an existential multilingual opera-thriller on the representation of women, decolonization, and climate change.

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