The European Commission has renewed its commitment to Opera Europa, the leading network of professional opera and ballet companies, and its flagship streaming platform OperaVision.

The European Commission has awarded Opera Europa with a 2,8 million euro grant for four years from 2025 to 2028. This represents the largest grant ever given to Opera Europa since it began its streaming in 2015. Over the years, Opera Europa has assembled a consortium of 44 organizations from 17 countries.

In January 2025, the Opera Europa consortium of opera houses and specialist talent development organizations will launch a program of onsite and online means to support, train and promote over 560 artists over 4 years. The platform offers emerging artists work and visibility through auditions, competitions, and the commitment of its members to give them opportunities to appear on OperaVision.

In a statement Karen Stone Executive Director of Opera Europa said “In a career, spent mostly as director of opera companies, which has taken me from the UK to Austria and Germany (via Dallas!), I have always particularly enjoyed the work of developing the next generation of talent. It is a joy to see a young artist grow out of a nervous audition into fully inhabiting a role on famous stage. Thanks to the European Commission’s support of this platform, Opera Europa has the chance to give more opportunities to emerging talent on a European scale via our wonderful network of colleagues and, indeed on global scale, through our streaming platform OperaVision.”

Here is the list of the Platform members:

Belgium
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie/De Munt
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Croatia
Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

Czech Republic
Národní divadlo Brno

Finland
Finnish National Opera and Ballet

France
Théâtre National de l’Opéra Comique
Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie
Opéra national du Rhin
Opéra national de Paris
Génération Opéra

Germany
Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg
Nationaltheater Mannheim
Rossini in Wildbad
Liz Mohn Stiftung (Neue Stimmen Competition)
Opernstudio North Rhine-Westphalia

Hungary
Hungarian State Opera

Ireland
Irish National Opera
Wexford Festival Opera

Italy
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Teatro Regio di Parma
Rossini Opera Festival
Fondazione Mascarade Opera
Opera for Peace
Teatro Regio Torino

Lithuania
Lithuanian National Opera
Klaipeda State Music Theatre

Netherlands
Dutch National Opera and Ballet
’s-Hertogenbosch (IVC) Singing Competition
O Festival

Norway
Queen Sonja Singing Competition
Norwegian National Opera

Poland
Poznań Opera House
Polish National Opera

Slovakia
Slovak National Theatre

Spain
Teatro Real
Grand Teatre del Liceu
Palau de les Arts Valencia
Festival de Peralada

Sweden
Royal Swedish Opera

Ukraine
Kyiv National Operetta Theatre
Dniprovsky Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet
Odessa National Opera
Lviv National Opera
Open Opera Ukraine