Opera Europa Next Generation (OENG), our new platform of promotion and training for emerging artists, was launched in style at our Spring 2024 conference in Barcelona. Giving visibility and development opportunities to over 560 emerging artists between 2025 and 2028, this programme is run by Opera Europa with a consortium of 44 opera houses and talent development organisations from 17 European countries, thanks to support from the European Union's Creative Europe scheme.
In Barcelona, delegates had the chance to enjoy an audition recital with emerging artists associated with several Opera Europa members: Montserrat Seró soprano (Fundació Victoria de los Ángeles); Daniel Gallegos baritone, Irakli Pkhaladze bass, Antonella Zanetti soprano (Centre de Perfeccionament Palau de Les Arts, Valencia), Kateryna Yasenchuk soprano and Oleksandr Kyreiev baritone (Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theatre); and Filip Filipović tenor (Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb).
There are number of ways to follow such emerging talent and the training opportunities offered through OENG. Operabook presents a new section dedicated to Next Generation and OperaVision its own section offering a digital stage for emerging talent. The Opera Europa website Next Generation tab is the place to find out about forthcoming opportunities open to all members such as the emerging artists’ recitals during the Artistic Administration & Producing forum in Paris 22-24 May 2025. OENG partners will have the chance to send an emerging artist from their company on our new Opera Europa Career Management Course (CMC). For OENG partners in central and eastern Europe, the CMC this year will be in Warsaw hosted by Polish National Opera from 24 to 26 October 2025.
Thanks to EU support, Opera Europa is able to put talent development at the core of its activities for the benefit of our sector, now and in the years to come.
