The European Platform supporting innovation in opera and ballet

Guaranteed professional
pre-selection

In order to guarantee an independent and professional selection process throughout its two funding programmes, FEDORA is working in close collaboration with expert partners and international jury panels.

The FEDORA Prizes Biennale’s Expert partners:
- for the Opera and Dance Prizes, Opera Europa - the Professional Association of Opera Houses and Festivals in Europe, the leading professional network representing over 220 opera companies and opera festivals in 44 different European countries
- for the Education Prize, RESEO - the European Network for opera, music, dance and education which brings together organizations and artists to promote innovation and equal access to creativity
- for the Digital Prize, IMZ - International Music + Media Centre - the international business network dedicated to the promotion of the performing arts through audiovisual media

The Next Stage Grants’ Expert Partner:
- Opera Europa - the Professional Association of Opera Houses and Festivals in Europe, the leading professional network representing over 200 opera companies and opera festivals in 43 different European countries.

A jury of
International Experts

The pre-selected projects are presented to the juries of experts who assess the applications, select the nominees and the winners of the FEDORA Prizes Biennale, and select the recipients of the Next Stage Grants.

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The FEDORA prizes
Biennale Jury

Opera jury

Dance jury

Education jury

Digital jury

Birgitta Svendén

Former General and Artistic Director
Royal Swedish Opera
Pierre Audi

General Director
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Laura Berman

Intendant
Staatsoper Hannover
Sivan Eldar

Composer of previous winner “Like Flesh”
Luc Joosten

Head of Dramaturgy
Dutch National Opera & Ballet
Víctor Garcia de Gomar

Artistic Director
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Randi Stene

Opera Director
Norwegian National Opera & Ballet
Viktor Schoner

Intendant of
Staatsoper Stuttgart

Ingrid Lorentzen

Artistic Director
Norwegian National Ballet
Ted Brandsen

Director
Dutch National Ballet
Julie Guibert

Ballet Artistic Director
Opéra de Lyon
Cathy Marston

Incoming Ballet Director
Ballett Zürich
Johannes Öhman

Artistic Director
Dansens Hus
Beate Vollack

Ballet Director
Oper Graz
Demis Volpi

Director of Dance
Deutsche Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg

Bernard Foccroulle

Former Director
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence / La Monnaie
Vania Cauzillo

Vice-Chair
RESEO
Hannah Griffiths

General Manager
Birmingham Opera Company
Inge Lattré

Artistic Director
Platform K
Laura Nidh

Deputy Head of Artistic Education and Programming for Young Audiences
Paris National Opera
Panaghis Pagoulatos

Director of Artistic Programming & Casting
Greek National Opera
Daniel Weissmann

General Director
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

Peter Maniura

Director
IMZ Academy
Martin Ajdari

Deputy General Director
Paris National Opera
Laetitia Bochud

Director at Virtual Switzerland #SwissXR, Consultant, President at XR4Europe, Advisory Board Member, Guest Lecturer, WiiT Ambassador
Renata Borowska -Juszczyńska

General Manager
Poznań Opera House
Ditte Feuk

Head of Theatre, Opera and Dance
SVT Drama
Katharina Jeschke

Secretary General
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Tod Machover

Composer, Professor of Music & Media and Director of the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group
MIT Media Lab
Alistair Spalding

Artistic Director & Chief Executive
Sadler's Wells Theatre

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The Next Stage
Grants Jury

Nicholas Payne

Director
Opera Europa
Valentina Bressan

Consultant in the strategy of sustainable ecological transition for the Operas
Valérie Chevalier

General Director
Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier Occitanie
Patrick Dillon

Director
Theatre Green Book / Renew Culture Ltd
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Mueller

Professor for Digital Business
University of Bremen Faculty of Business and Economics
Filipe Santos

Dean
Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Mirja Telzerow

European People Director
Kearney