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The Nominees for the FEDORA Opera Prize 2020
FEDORA Prizes
As of June 29th, you will be able to donate to the nominees of the FEDORA Opera Prize on the Platform. As of June 29th, you will be able to donate to the nominees of the FEDORA Opera Prize on the Platform. The FEDORA Opera Prize 2020 is supported by Generali.
Discover more about the nominees*:
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
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
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.
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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