Author: operacopro
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The Thrive of Arts Followed by the Growth of Economy
Arts Venues in Busan Busan is South Korea’s second most-populous and current largest industrial area. With its thriving economy and the influx of population, the arts and cultural scene in Busan is expanding exponentially. Busan is now acknowledged as a landmark for its cultural, economic and international significance. Especially with the recent trend of easternization…
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Diversity, Community and Festival Interviewing Inge Ceustermans (Part 2)
On the last blog, Inge Ceustermans introduces us to the European Festivals Association’s (EFA) The Festival Academy, from which we learned the importance of diversity to the academy. But how does The Festival Academy create such a metropolitan learning environment? Venue is intrinsic to the structure of The Festival Academy, and the event is hosted in different parts of the world each…
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Diversity, Community and Festival Interviewing Inge Ceustermans (Part 1)
Source: The Festival Academy European Festivals Association’s (EFA) The Festival Academy is an exciting international project, which offers training on festival management to young festival makers worldwide. It was set up in 2012 following the success of one of its training programs the Atelier for Young Festival Managers which was initiated by EFA in 2006. Today, the…
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Opera Co-Pro at the launch conference of the FEDORA Platform!
FEDORA platform is a project funded by the Creative Europe programme. To continue the intercultural dialogue between artists, the FEDORA platform, led by Edilia Gänz, encourages innovative, hybrid opera and ballet co-productions within Europe. The project seeks to diversify the current products and also their audience. The project has three main objectives: Increases visibility for the works…
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Data Analysis For Classical Music Managers 2.0
Opera Co-Pro’s Chief Technology Officer, Anna Costalonga, presenting the ‘Musik Lovers’ project at the recent edition of the Coding da Vinci cultural hackathon held at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. (photo: Annette Thoma / Konzerthaus Berlin) An exciting new project for cultural institution managers has been developed which seeks to process and analyse data on…
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Opera Houses and the Financial Crisis in Spain
The auditorium of the Teatro Real in Madrid whose public subsidy only constitutes 30% of its income. (photo: Fss.fer) As they are in most European countries, the public subsidies provided by central, regional and local governments have been essential in preserving the precarious life and balance of opera in Spain. Various models of management have been…
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The Royal Opera House Mumbai
photo: Nicrahul India might not sound like the most obvious market for western classical opera but we at Opera Co-Pro were surprised to find out that in Mumbai there is an opera house that dates from the British Raj and was refurbished only last year! The Royal Opera House Mumbai re-opened its doors in October 2016 after being…
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The Latest Trends in European Opera House Financing
The Opéra Garnier in Paris. Opéra National de Paris is the European opera company with the biggest budget. (photo: Peter Rivera) French opera website Revopera has recently published a survey on the financing of 14 leading European opera companies. According to 2015 figures collated from various annual reports and press releases, coming top in Europe with the…
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Three Points to Consider when Realising a Co-Production
Getting excited about your own co-production? Here are three fundamental points to consider: planning, scheduling and the co-production agreement. Conductor Michael Thrift during rehearsals of Fulham Opera’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor, opening 7 November 2017 in London (photo credit: Simon Goldsmith) Planning How many months in advance do you plan your season and cast your…