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Celebrating 10 Years of Impact, Renewal & Change
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21 April 2023
Paris
FEDORA's Activities, 10-Year Anniversary
This year, together with our cultural and philanthropic community, FEDORA celebrates 10 years of impact, renewal and change in the opera and dance sector.
On this occasion, Landor, the world's largest specialist brand and design group that created the FEDORA brand in 2013, developed a new unique visual identity based on generative artificial intelligence. This algorithm is capable of translating a musical work into emotional data, interpreting it and expressing it graphically. The artificial intelligence has been fed with each of the winning works of the FEDORA Prizes*. This resulted in the creation of visual representations specific to each project that celebrate talent, emotion and innovation.
“Over the last decade, FEDORA has been contributing to the emergence of innovative and collaborative artistic works
that encourage intercultural dialogue, social inclusion, digital innovation, audience renewal and the development of
new funding models for opera and dance.”
Jérôme-François Zieseniss
President of FEDORA
*Since the winners of the FEDORA Prizes Biennale 2023 have not reached the stage yet, they have been included in this campaign yet. Discover these inspiring projects here.
2021- Winning Projects
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Like flesh
FEDORA Opera Prize Winner 2021
led by Opéra de Lille (France)
A subversion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Like flesh is a dark contemporary myth informed by queer politics and environmental sciences. It offers an urgent warning against our destructive relationships with each other and our world. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, a woman mourns the devastation of the forest around her. An unexpected affair instigates an explosive metamorphosis, and she finds perfect release as a tree. But the world is a dangerous place for trees.
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La Visita
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner 2021
led by Fondazione I Teatri - Reggio Emilia (Italy)
The Site-Specific Project La Visita brings Peeping Tom’s theatricality, its disruption, and surrealism into the new world of art galleries. Through the artworks, the museum’s characters and the audience is taken into a parallel mental world, portraying what usually remains hidden. The museum, a symbol of stability in time, is confronted here with the temporary and the volatile.
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Dance training for people with a disability
FEDORA Education Prize Winner 2021
led by Platform-K (Belgium)
People with disabilities are excluded from professional dance training and the mission of Platform-K is to fill this gap. They believe that dancers with disabilities are an added value to the contemporary dance scene. To do this, they train dancers with disabilities and they create productions with dancers with and without disabilities. The goal of an inclusive dance scene can only be reached if dancers with disabilities are professionally trained.
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Out of the Ordinary/As an nGnách
FEDORA Digital Prize Winner 2021
led by Irish National Opera (Ireland)
Out of the Ordinary/As an nGnách harnesses the creativity and life experience of diverse Irish communities that currently have little or no connection to opera. It uses cutting-edge technology as a tool to distill and present their stories. It results in the world’s first-ever virtual reality community opera.
2020 - Winning Projects
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Woman at Point Zero
FEDORA - GENERALI Opera Prize Winner 2020
led by LOD muziektheater (Belgium)
Woman at Point Zero is a new opera based on the classic 1975 novel by the Egyptian writer Nawal El Sadaawi. From this universal story of exploitation, erasure and search for freedom, composer Bushra El-Turk, director Laila Soliman, writer Stacy Hardy and filmmaker Aida Elkashef created a new multimedia production that weaves together diverse creative visions and challenges conventions. Opera as a powerful voice for a new wave of feminism without borders.
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LIGHT Bach dances
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner 2020
led by Hofesh Shechter Company (United Kingdom)
Bach’s cantatas, Hofesh Shechter’s profoundly affecting choreography, and audio testimony of people facing death come together in a moving, thought-provoking, and life-affirming dance, music, and theatre piece. Only by dancing in the abyss can we celebrate the LIGHT.
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Going for Gold
FEDORA Education Prize Winner 2020
led by Birmingham Opera Company (United Kingdom)
Inspiring 10,000 local people with 100 free events and supporting 50 diverse emerging artists with unparalleled professional development opportunities in Europe’s youngest, most diverse city. It culminates in a disused factory, with volunteer performers alongside a stellar international cast and the full CBSO, in a ground-breaking production of Wagner’s RhineGold (Das Rheingold) led by Artistic Director Graham Vick CBE and newly appointed Music Director Alpesh Chauhan.
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Laila - Immersive Installation
FEDORA Digital Prize Winner 2020
led by Finnish National Opera and Ballet (Finland)
Laila is an immersive opera installation that adapts to audiences by harnessing artificial intelligence. This innovative project redefines how audiences can experience opera. Laila invites the audience to shape her reality and the world of the future together with artificial intelligence. She challenges us to encounter our hopes, fears, and anxieties related to technology and the unknown tomorrow.
2019 - Winning Projects
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Denis & Katya
FEDORA - GENERALI Prize for Opera Winner 2019
led by Opera Philadelphia (United States)
In 2016, after a stand-off with Special Forces, teenagers Denis Muravyov and Katya Vlasova live-streamed their last hours, leaving behind a trail of devastating video footage. Almost three years later, Opera Philadelphia and its co-commission partners Music Theatre Wales and Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier brought their tragic story to the stage with Denis & Katya, a chamber opera by British composer Philip Venables and American librettist and stage director Ted Huffman.
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Invisible Cities
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner 2019
led by Rambert (United Kingdom)
Centred on the edgy relationship between Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire, and explorer Marco Polo, this spellbinding mix of theatre, choreography, music, architectural design and projection mapping imagined a succession of alternative worlds – and reimagined what is possible in live performance.
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Co-OPERAtive
FEDORA Prize for Education Winner 2019
led by Greek National Opera (Greece)
Co-OPERAtive is an opera hub designed for a mixed group of 60 young Athenians and unaccompanied refugees aged 15-17. The art of opera is used as a common language of the first intercultural youth opera hub in Europe. Co-OPERAtive aims to broaden opera’s appeal to adolescents, highlighting cultural diversity and social cohesion.
2018 - Winning Projects
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Seven Stones
FEDORA - GENERALI Prize for Opera Winner 2018
led by Festival d'Aix (France)
Seven Stones is a highly creative, non-traditional and accessible opera from young Czech composer Ondřej Adámek and Icelandic poet Sjón. It is a story about a stone collector whose passion, indeed addiction, so haunts and devours him until he loses all sense of reality.
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A Quiet Evening of Dance
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner 2018
led by Sadler's Wells Theatre (United Kingdom)
A programme by William Forsythe, A Quiet Evening of Dance features a range of works from the sparse and analytic to baroque-inspired counterpoint. This configuration of new and existing work creates an evening of dance designed to be listened to as much as watched. Featuring themes of space and time, Forsythe and his collaborators explore new shapes and modes of movement.
2017 - Winning Projects
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The Second Violinist
FEDORA - GENERALI Prize for Opera Winner 2017
led by Irish National Opera (Ireland)
This opera, composed by Donnacha Dennehy, focuses on the character of the second violinist in an ensemble. It examined this man as he experiences a mental breakdown as a major performance looms. He gets pulled further and further into darkness.
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Love Chapter 2
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner 2017
led by L-E-V Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar (Israel)
Love Chapter 2 is the second episode of the ongoing creation called Love Cycle, by choreographer Sharon Eyal. During a 55 minutes piece, accompanied by DJ Ori Lichtik’s live music, five to seven dancers will explore through their movements social isolation, solitude, and lack of connections in nowadays world.
2016 - Winning Projects
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Kein Licht
FEDORA - ROLF LIEBERMANN Prize for Opera Winner 2016
led by Théâtre National de l'Opéra Comique (France)
Kein Licht is a commission by Opera Comique to Philippe Manoury to compose an opera based on the eponym text by Elfriede Jelinek written in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. It is a global and metaphorical reflection on the individual and collective responsibility on ecological and political issues, and on the human relationship to technology.
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Le Syndrome Ian
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner 2016
led by ICI-CCN centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier (France)
Le Syndrome Ian is a piece for 9 dancers and 2 live musicians. With d’après une histoire vraie, ad noctum, and this new piece, Christian Rizzo built a trilogy emanating from the questions attached to the practice of anonymous dances facing the concept of authorship. 1979: While the planet vibrates to the sound of disco music, in England arises a dark and poetic dance, set to the rhythm of electric angular jerking bodies. How are these two physical representation types embodied in a single movement creating a unique writing?
2015 - Winning Projects
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Milo & Maya Around The World
FEDORA - ROLF LIEBERMANN Prize for Opera Winner 2015
led by Teatro Sociale di Como - AsLiCo (Italy)
The adventures of Milo and Maya, who travel around the world, are constantly obstructed by the antagonist Gian Gianni and his gang, creating hilarious scenes and funny misunderstandings. Milo and Maya Around The World is an interactive opera project for young audiences. It aimed to produce an opera for young audiences, written by the composer Matteo Franceschini and interpreted by young artists from all over Europe.
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Sleeping Beauty
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner 2015
led by Fondazione Teatro alla Scala di Milano (Italy)
Alexei Ratmansky, who has made the revival of the classics one of the cornerstones of his tireless creative work, had long waited to choreograph the Sleeping Beauty: for him, Tchaikovsky’s complex score and Petipa’s choreography are the quintessence of the harmony and magic of classical dance and the highest achievement of Russian classical art.
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Private view
FEDORA - ROLF LIEBERMANN Prize for Opera Winner 2015
led by Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium)
Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 Rear Window, Private View is about seducing the audience into the illusion that they will slowly but surely be presented with a true cause of events. Throughout this opera, Belgian composer Annelies Van Parys aimed to explore the power of imagination in relation to what is projected, as well as breaking down the idea of a "safe distance".
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Sound of Music
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner 2015
led by Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (Switzerland)
As an interdisciplinary art form, musical comedy combines music, song, dance and story-telling. As bearers of simplified messages, musical comedies transport us to other worlds without complexity. This both enthusiastic and critical understanding of musical comedies is what the idea behind Sound of Music is based on.
