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A Retrospective of the FEDORA Platform Members activities 2022
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31 October 2022
Paris
Experience Opera and Ballet Online, Platform Members, Roadshow
Discover the creativity of our Platform Members through the in-person and online activities they organised in 2021-2022 thanks to the co-funding of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and FEDORA. These organisations implement activities driving sustainability, inclusivity, and digital transformation across Europe while giving visibility to emerging artists.
BELGIUM
OPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN
A bigger thing
What does it mean to dance together? How do you build a community? The Argentinian choreographer Lisi Estaras will be working for a year with a diverse group of fifty dancers from Ghent around encounter, intimacy and understanding.
BULGARIA
STARA ZAGORA STATE OPERA
We are musicians
Discover the music workshops for children and youth with special needs, based on the Orff music therapy approach, which Stara Zagora State Opera has started in order to encourage the social inclusion of vulnerable groups through art.
CROATIA
© Drazen Sokcevic i
CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE IVAN PL. ZAJC RIJEKA
Zinka Milanov 4th International Competition for Young Opera Singers
CZECH REPUBLIC
NÁRODNÍ DIVADLO BRNO
The Magic Flute by director Miroslav Krobot
In April, the first opera directed by actor and drama director Miroslav Krobot, The Magic Flute, premiered in Národní divadlo Brno.
STATE THEATRE PRAGUE
Podcasts by the State Theatre Prague
Each podcast episode (in Czech) dwells on a performance/piece or on a theme related to the sector of performing arts and its professionals, including experiencing and searching new dimensions in using AI in creative process.
FINLAND
FINNISH NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET
Opera Beyond Conference 2022
From reaching bigger and more diverse audiences, the possibilities of new technology in opera and ballet, AI, volumetric video, to Metaverse as a creative space, innovation in the sector is at the core of Opera Beyond.
FRANCE
FESTIVAL D'AIX-EN-PROVENCE
#thedigitalstage
Every year, during the months of June and July, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence offers online streaming of operas, concerts, preludes, interviews of artists and even reports on #thedigitalstage.
OPERA DE LILLE
Like Flesh on Operavision
The opera Like flesh led by Opéra de Lille, winner of the FEDORA Opera Prize 2021, is currently available to stream on OperaVision.
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Séisme: an interactive opus | Workshop #2 (June 2022, Montpellier)
Séisme: an interactive opus
Back in Montpellier, the trio in residence formed by director Franciska Éry, composer Alex Ho and poet Ar Guens Jean Mary meet for a second creative workshop of their interactive opus project: Séisme.
GERMANY
DEUTSCHE OPERA AM RHEIN DÜSSELDORF
don't look at the jar
Interview with Gil Harush, choreographer, on his piece, don't look at the jar. The title "don't look at the jar" is an Israeli proverb and means: Don't look at the jar but what is inside!
NATIONALTHEATER MANNHEIM
Sustainable practices
Detlef Grooß, responsible for sustainability and musician in the orchestra at Nationaltheater Mannheim, explains how the house is transforming its processes to be more sustainable.
OPER LEIPZIG
Grüne Soirée & "Sustainable Costumes" project
Discover the Next Stage Grant Recipient, Oper Leipzig with their project Sustainable costumes, through the eyes of Katja Schmidt, Hat Department Manager and manager of the project, and Bernd Niesar, Director of the Theatre Workshops.
STAATSOPER HANNOVER
sound:waves festival
sound:waves invites people with and without disabilities - regardless of age, origin, socio-economic background and educational biography - to a collective creative process. All citizens of Hannover are invited to develop, expand and transform an inclusive sound installation.
© Nilz Böhme i
THEATER MAGDEBURG
Theater x FC Magdeburg
Experience a community choir project with fans of the local football club FC Magdeburg.
© Kevin Fuchs i
FREUNDE UND FÖRDERER DER STAATSOPER UNTER DEN LINDEN
Sustainable goals
On 13 June, Artistic Director Matthias Schulz presented the sustainability goals and projects of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden to their Members.
GREECE
GREEK NATIONAL OPERA
Greek National Opera Recital
During the lockdown, pianist Sophia Tamvakopoulou accompanied singers of the Greek National Opera in performances of Greek composers.
IRELAND
© Ste Murray i
IRISH NATIONAL OPERA
Horse Ape Bird
In June 2022 Irish National Opera presented its first Youth Opera Horse Ape Bird, discover it through its composer's eyes, David Coonan.
ITALY
FONDAZIONE TEATRO MASSIMO PALERMO
Instant Opera
INSTANT OPERA, part of the Opera City initiative is an innovative format providing the creation of a live music composition, with a musical score including both composed parts and improvisation, that aims to involve the audience also as performer.
© Alessia Santambrogio i
TEATRO SOCIALE DI COMO - ASLICO
Festival Como Città della Musica
Intorno al Festival is an artistic review of musical events with free admission all around Como town and lake, that gravitates around Teatro Sociale’s summer festival.
NETHERLANDS
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DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET
Keti Koti
On Friday, July 1st, Dutch National Opera and RIGHTABOUTNOW INC. came together to celebrate and commemorate Keti Koti – ‘break the chains’.
O. FESTIVAL FOR THEATRE. OPERA. MUSIC.
Music Theatre NOW
Discover a mini documentary about the professionals program/ Music Theatre NOW.
WORLD OPERA LAB
Ine Aya' Tour
Ine Aya’ is a dialogue between cultures. Based on two classical works, one from the Eastern and one from the Western culture: the Kayan epic Takna’ Lawe’ and Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Both stories are about the importance of honoring nature and its natural resources.
POLAND
POZNAN OPERA HOUSE
Albert Herring Premiere & Next Stage Grants
Discover the Next Stage Grant Recipient project led by Poznań Opera House, Opera Matters.
PORTUGAL
OPERA DO CASTELO
Operafest Lisboa 2022
A festival full of masquerade balls and labyrinths, and opera full of adrenaline!
SPAIN
© Javier del Real i
TEATRO REAL
Arts Management Student's
During a 3-day event, international students of the Master in Performing Arts Management of Universidad Complutense of Madrid discovered FEDORA during a round table around the premiere of the production Nabucco.
SWEDEN
ROYAL SWEDISH OPERA
When Buds Burst
Discover the Royal Swedish Opera's latest mini-opera series: Short Stories III. Three contemporary Swedish composers were invited to present new short operas based on real events: Taro, My Turn Now, and When Buds Burst.
