SUPPORT FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
OPERA MANAGEMENT COURSE - 10 editions boosting 293 careers from participants in 39 countries
OPERAVISION - performances of 184 emerging artists (EAs) since 2022, including 44 in 2024.
EUROPEAN OPERA-DIRECTING PRIZE -13 editions, with 1924 applicants, 375.000 € prize money went into the production of 17 titles, featuring 33 emerging artists in the artistic teams
EVA KLEINITZ SCHOLARSHIP - 15 emerging singers supported
10 years of Opera Europa’s Opera Management Course
Croatian National Opera Zagreb was the host of Opera Europa’s 10th Opera Management Course. Since 2013, 293 young professionals from 39 countries have taken part in this training opportunity, learned from experts and from each other, grown their professional network, and prepared for the next step of their career in Opera. Coming from diverse specialised backgrounds within – artistic administration, marketing, finance, human resources, technical management - or around the opera company – stage directors, singers, artists managers – they have grown into an impressive network, and it was such a pleasure to recognise so many of them walking around in little groups around our Vienna conference.
OperaVision Next Generation
OperaVision has featured 184 emerging artists since 2022, including 44 in 2024.This content (over 60 performances and other short form material) has accumulated 645,000 views on our main channel. There are several ways emerging artists might feature on OperaVision: masterclasses featuring renowned and emerging artists, concerts, recitals, documentaries, new opera performances to showcase emerging artists or smaller roles in big productions. In addition to this, many emerging artists were seens by our millions of viewers in OperaVision's weekly streams.
OperaVision also has its own ‘Next Generation’ podcast channel. Featuring 24 emerging artists, the 21 episodes released so far have been downloaded 38,500 times (18,800 times on YouTube and 19,700 times via other podcast media).
OperaVision social media has done much to connect our featured emerging artists with their peers and other generations.
39 TikTok videos featuring emerging artists have been viewed 5,321,000 times. And these are the figures for other channels:
Facebook - 142 videos viewed 523,000 times
Instagram - 124 videos viewed 824,700 times
X - 129 videos viewed 64,500 time
OperaVision affords us an amazing opportunity to share our performances across the world, with hundreds of thousands of people who would not otherwise have seen the show. I was amazed at the number of people who watched our Il Barbiere di Siviglia from Garsington Opera in England, and I was delighted at the response and the number of people who then wrote to me personally, from all over the world! In a time where it feels that the world of opera is not always being celebrated and encouraged, OperaVision is a place of positivity, hope and joy, spreading the opera love to anyone who wants to receive it, and reminding us that opera really can be good for us all.
Katie Bray, soprano
I am very grateful to OperaVision and Opera Europa for the chances they have given me at the start of my career. Being featured in the OV streamed masterclass helped to get me noticed internationally and it was a pleasure to exchange other emerging artists during the focus group organised during the OE conference in Copenhagen.
Ihor Mostovoi, baritone
I feel very honoured to be featured in the documentary commissioned by Opera for Peace as part of the OperaVision Next Generation project. I hope that the story of my journey to opera will inspire other emerging artists to keep faith even in difficult times. Viva (Opera) Europa!
Leonardo Sánchez, tenor
In summary, with 434 videos viewed over 7.8 million in less than 3 years, OperaVision is making a significant contribution to helping emerging artists from across Europe be seen and heard globally online.
The Opera Management Course has broadened my horizon as a young professional enormously. I had the invaluable opportunity to meet senior colleagues as mentors, who openly shared their experience knowledge with us. Most important was also that I met other likeminded young colleagues. Some of them still belong to my closest network today. The OMC is a truly unique programme to share opera managers of the future.
Jan Henric Bogen, Intendant, Theater St Gallen (OMC 2015 Peralada)
After my first five years of working in opera, my participation in the 2016 Opera Management Course was like a trigger. This workshop of a few days allowed me to initiate a network of partners, colleagues and friends on a European scale, all of my age, working in the same sector and having similar questions on the future of opera. The workshop activities created so many opportunities to build strong bonds with each of them, and several years later, I still work or am in close contact with the people I met there.
Paul Briottet, Directeur Adjoint de l’Académie du Festival d’Aix (OMC 2016 Bregenz)
Opera Management Course which I had an opportunity to attend in 2017 was a transforming experience for me, both professionally and personally. Only a couple of months before we founded our independent opera company in Ukraine. And therefore, discovering all the secrets of the professional sphere was very valuable. Intensive workshops and insightful inputs from established specialists have influenced further strategic decisions in our organization's development.
And the most precious achievement - the new family of like-minded people, with whom we have been best friends since then!
Galyna Grygorenko, Director, Open Opera Ukraine (OMC 2017 Lille)
The OMC 2023 meant for me direct contact with colleagues and now friends of similar ages from all over Europe in a high-quality training work environment. From those days I take away knowledge, professionalism, future and a great network of professional contacts. Without a doubt, among other reasons, it inspired me to undertake a change of position in my organization.
Miquel Martorell, General Director, Teatro Principal de Palma de Mallorca (OMC 2023 Wiesbaden)
I would like to thank you and Opera Europa for giving me the opportunity to take part in one of the most enriching, exciting and valuable experiences of my career as a young professional.
I have taken so much with me from the week I spent at the OMC in Zagreb. It was wonderfully intense, enlightening, challenging and simply unforgettable! I learned so much from each and every one of our mentors, lecturers and colleagues.
Gemma Coll Torra, Staff del Direttore Generale, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (OMC 2024 Zagreb)
