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FEDORA PRIZES BIENNALE
Since 2013, the FEDORA Prizes encourage the next generation of talent to bring the unexpected to the stage. The four established prizes (Opera, Dance, Education and Digital) support cutting-edge artistic projects that promote international collaboration, creativity, social integration and intercultural dialogue, as well as digital innovation on and beyond the stage.
“The world's largest competition for ballet and opera.”
Das Erste - Europamagazin
TIMELINE
4 March 2024
Start of the call for applications
17 May 2024
End of the call for applications
Online
3 July 2024
Shortlist Announcement
Online
26 October 2024
Announcement of the nominees & Launch of the nominees' crowdfunding campaigns
15 January 2025
Nominees' crowdfunding campaigns
15 January 2025
End of the nominees' crowdfunding phase
Spring 2025
Launch of the public voting phase
Online
Spring 2025
End of the public voting phase
Spring 2025
Award Ceremony
PRIZES CATEGORIES
Fedora
Opera Prize
€100,000
The FEDORA Opera Prize awards productions that reimagine opera for the 21st century:
- Encourages the rethinking of how operas are created, produced, and delivered
- Nurtures innovation and creativity of opera by supporting new experimental opera creations created by promising teams of emerging artists with the ambition to reach international audiences
- Collaborating with Opera Europa and independent jury expert panel to guarantee a professional evaluation and selection process
With the support of
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Fedora
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
Dance Prize
€100,000
The FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize awards productions that reimagine dance for the 21st century:
- Encourages the rethinking of how ballets are created, produced, and delivered
- Nurtures innovation and creativity of dance by supporting new experimental dance creations created by promising teams of emerging artists with the ambition to reach international audiences
- Collaborating with Opera Europa and independent jury expert panel to guarantee a professional evaluation and selection process
With the support of
Founded in 1906 at Paris’ Place Vendôme, the High Jewelry Maison Van Cleef & Arpels has remained faithful to a highly distinctive style characterized by creativity, enchantment, artistic sensibility and poetry. Its collections have notably been influenced by dance, with the emblematic ballerina clips born in the 1940s. This inter-disciplinary dialogue was reinforced by a decisive encounter with George Balanchine. In 1967 in New York, the well-known choreographer presented the ballet Jewels, inspired by the emeralds, rubies and diamonds he had admired in Van Cleef & Arpels’ Fifth Avenue boutique. Today, these cultural affinities endure in new collaborations between the Maison and the world of dance. The FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet symbolizes the Maison’s constant commitment to creativity and bears witness to its support for choreographic art, by encouraging new talents.
Fedora
Education Prize
€50,000
The FEDORA Education Prize is awarded to innovative projects encouraging the involvement of new and wider audiences while fostering social integration amongst the participants:
- Supports innovative educational opera and ballet projects targeting new audiences.
- Advocates new access to opera and ballet while encouraging the involvement of local communities and underprivileged audiences to boost social emotional learning, mutual understanding and respect in today’s society.
- Collaborating with RESEO and independent jury expert panel to guarantee a professional evaluation and selection process
With the support of
Supporting artistic projects that will become ambassadors of solidarity and social inclusion in Europe resonates with Carlara International’s values, as they believe that the performing arts offer important pathways for everyone in our society to be part of a community, to interact with peers, and to discover new ways of expressing one’s feelings in a safe and encouraging environment. By supporting artistic work that nurtures empathy and social-emotional learning while enabling artistic work to reach new audiences as the sponsor of the FEDORA Education Prize, Carlara International joins forces with FEDORA to support together the cultural champions of social integration.
Fedora
Digital Prize
€50,000
The FEDORA Digital Prize advocates new ways of artistic expression and access to opera and ballet through digital innovation:
- Encourages artistic innovation in opera and ballet through digital experimentation
- Advocates new ways of interactions with audiences through digital tools and performance
- Promotes interactions across different media and stimulates new collaborative approaches through digital innovation
- Triggers interdisciplinary dialogue and the sharing of best practice between sectors
- Collaborating with IMZ International Music + Media Centre and independent jury expert panel to guarantee a professional evaluation and selection process
With the support of
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We believe that digital innovation should be harnessed as a driver of excellence and creativity. Through our partnership with FEDORA, we accompany new generations of artists in the development of ideas and encourage interdisciplinary approaches to unleash the potential of digital innovation in the fields of opera and ballet.
FEDORA PRIZES 2025 WINNERS
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