The Nominees for the FEDORA Opera Prize 2020

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07 June 2020

FEDORA Prizes

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JURY NOMINEES

Upload

UPLOAD 
by the Dutch National Opera (Netherlands)

Composer, Director, Librettist and Film Director: Michel van der Aa
Scenographer and lightning designer: Theun Mosk

What if our minds could live forever? Through Upload, composer, director and librettist Michel van der Aa tells the story of a father, who suffers from a severe trauma, and a daughter. Upload will tell its story through live action, motion-capture and immersive film.

Woman at Point Zero

WOMAN AT POINT ZERO
by LOD Muziektheater (Belgium)

Composer: Bushra El-Turk 
Librettist: Stacy Hardy
Stage Director: Laila Soliman
Video Artist: Aida Elkashef

Woman at Point Zero is based on a novel by Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi from 1975. The novel portrays Nawal’s encounter with a woman named Firdaus, who is on death row in a Cairo prison.

The Listeners

THE LISTENERS
by The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet (Norway)

Director: Lileana Blain-Cruz 
Composer: Missy Mazzoli 
Librettist: Royce Vavrek
Conductor: Ilan Volkov

The Listeners is a new opera from composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek based on an original story by Jordan Tannahill and inspired by the phenomenon known as The Hum, a high-frequency environmental noise that only a select few people, “the Listeners”, can hear.

PUBLIC NOMINEE

FLUX
by Konscht Maschinn (Luxembourg)

Artistic Directors: Mafalda Millies and Roya Sachs
Composer: Joel Baldwin
Costume Designer: Olivia Schuler-Voith
Librettist: Clemente Ciarrocca

FLUX is a non-linear opera commissioned to emerging composer Joel Baldwin with a libretto sung only in vowels. Set in the 17th century Steintheater in Salzburg, the opera uses its natural and isolated surrounding as a multi-sensory canvas.

*in alphabetical order of lead company

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