Opera Europa is the international service organisation for professional opera companies and opera festivals in

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. It is incorporated in

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as a not-for-profit organisation. With roots going back to 1995, Opera Europa gained its present format and name in 2002, on the merger of the European Opera Network and the Eurolyrica associations.Opera Europa website
The beginnings of Opera Europa: a short chronicle
It had 204 member companies in 43 different countries as of May 2020.Opera Europa website

Retrieved 9 May 2020.

Activities

For the benefit of its member companies, it runs forums, databases, a quarterly newsletter, and twice-yearly conferences, and offers reciprocal membership benefits with

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.Opera Europa website
About Us pages
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European Opera Days

Opera Europa co-ordinates the annual European Opera Days when opera companies across Europe open their doors to the general public, with opera house tours, open rehearsals, talks and special events (both in and outside the conventional spaces). The first European Opera Days were held in 2007, and since then have taken place each year on the weekend closest to the EU's

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, 9 May.

The Opera Platform

Opera Europa is the lead partner behind The Opera Platform, a service launched in May 2015 to offer free live streams of operas via the web. The three-year project to stream one free production every month received half of its 3.9 million euro budget from the European Union's

Creative Europe Creative Europe is a European Union programme for the cultural and creative sectors. In its first phase, going from 2014 to 2020, it had a budget of € 1.47 billion, which were expanded to € 2.44 billion in its second phase (2021-2027). Hist ...

programme, the other half coming from the 15 opera companies providing the content. The Franco-German TV network

Arte Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plus ...

is providing the technological platform. The Opera Platform won the Accessibility category in the 2016 edition of the

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.2016 winners
International Opera Awards. Retrieved 22 October 2016

European Opera-directing Prize (EOP)

In collaboration with the Camerata Nuova e.V. in

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, Opera Europa supports a biennial competition, the European Opera-directing Prize (EOP, in German: Europäischen Opernregie-Preis) for young opera directors and design teams up to the age of 35. Competition is fierce with more than 200 teams applying in 2009.Camerata Nuova website
Was ist der EOP?
The winning team receive prize money of 35,000 euros, but perhaps more importantly have their production mounted by a European opera company, receiving mentoring and support for this process.Camerata Nuova websit
Overview in English
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References

Sources

Opera Europa
website
Camerata Nuova e.V., Wiesbaden
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