FEDORA - Celebrating Emerging Excellence: Franciska Éry Awarded the Carmen Mateu Young Artist European Award

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Celebrating Emerging Excellence: Franciska Éry Awarded the Carmen Mateu Young Artist European Award

Industry News, Nominee

FEDORA proudly highlights a major milestone in contemporary opera, as Franciska Éry has been awarded the Carmen Mateu Young Artist European Award 2025 for A Bathroom Opera, an innovative, immersive project connecting young audiences with opera.

The jury praised Éry’s work for its artistic quality, multidisciplinary approach, and participatory format, opening opera to new generations. Éry was previously recognised by FEDORA when her interactive opera SÉISME was nominated for the FEDORA Digital Prize 2022, a project blending music, poetry, AI, and audience interaction.

Éry has built an international career across leading European institutions, including the Royal Opera House, Opera Holland Park, and Montpellier National Opera. This award celebrates her creative vision and growing impact on European operatic and educational landscapes.

WINNING PROJECT – 4TH EDITION

The Fundació Privada Castell de Peralada has announced that A Bathroom Opera is the winning project of the fourth edition of the Carmen Mateu Young Artist European Award, Opera and Dance, dedicated this year to the opera category in the artistic-educational project modality.

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Séisme: an interactive opus | Workshop #2 (June 2022, Montpellier)

“Séisme” is an new interactive opus about the conversation between humans and the Earth. Through poetry, music, vibrations, interactive flooring and artificial intelligence, the piece invites its audience to communicate with the ground we all walk on, creating a participative physical and online work of art.

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