FEDORA Announces Nominees for 2025 Awards
By David SalazarFEDORA has announced the nominees for its 2025 prizes.
This year’s Opera Prize nominees include “Hôtel Moctezuma,” which is inspired by works by Vivaldi and Alejo Carpentier. It is characterized as an “existential multilingual opera-thriller on the representation of women, decolonization, and climate change.” As of this writing, the work has reached half of its 10,000 euro goal. It is set for performance at the Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier Occitanie.
The second nominee is “The Curing Line,” “a groundbreaking multi-platform opera project by Irish music-theatre company Straymaker which explores themes of healing, interconnectivity, loss of culture and environmental collapse through the story of a woman who inherits a life-saving cure but loses her capacity to use it.” The work has collected 2,590 euros of a goal of a target of 50,000 euros.
Last among the nominees is Huang Ruo’s “Between Two Lights,” a “profound exploration of life’s ultimate truth: death. The project is a transformative artistic experience that blurs the lines between theater, visual arts, and human storytelling.” This work has garnered close to 80 percent of its 10,000 euro target. It will be presented by the Netherlands Chamber Choir.
The winner will be unveiled on April 26 at the Vienna State Opera. There are also nominees in Dance, Education, and Digital works, with such companies as the Greek National Opera, Paris Opera, and Stara Zagora Opera involved with Education and Digital nominees.
The jury includes Birgitta Svendén, former CEO of the Royal Swedish Opera; Pierre Audi, General Director of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Alex Ho, composer; Kasper Holten, CEO of the Royal Danish Theatre; Iva Hraste-Soco, General Manager of the Croatian National Theatre in Zabreb; Sophie de Lint, Director of the Dutch National Opera; Alexander Neef, General Director of the Opéra National de Paris; and Karen Stone, Director of Opera Europa.
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