Opera Vision
Welsh National Opera
Cooperation Projects
Wales
2017
Total project grant (euros)
1,993,000
Programme
Creative Europe
Sub-programme
Culture
Call number
EACEA 45/2016
Project date
1 Aug 2017 - 28 Feb 2021
Number of partners in project
29
Lead organisation
Opera Europa, Belgium
Partners
Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium
Finnish National Opera, Finland
Association pour le Festival International d'Art Lyrique et l'Academie Europeene de Musique d'Aix-En-Provence, France
Stiftung Oper In Berlin, Germany
Fondazione Teatro Regio di Torino, Italy
Latvijas Nacionala Opera un Balets, Latvia
Stichting Nationale Opera & Ballet, Netherlands
Den Norske Opera & Ballett AS, Norway
Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa, Poland
Fundacion del Teatro Real, Spain
Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation, UK
Narodni Divadlo Brno, Prispevkova Organizace, Czech Republic
Kunsthuis Opera Vlaanderen Ballet Vlaanderen, Belgium
Welsh National Opera Ltd, UK
Palau de les Arts, Fundacio de la Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
Fondazione Teatro la Fenice di Vinezia, Italy
Teatr Wielki im. Stanislawa Moniuszki w Poznaniu, Poland
Narodni Divadlo, Czech Republic
Ethniki Lyriki Skini, Greece
Kungliga Operan Aktiebolag, Sweden
Opera North Ltd, UK
Theatre National de l'Opera Comique, France
Fondazione Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli, Italy
Wexford Festival Trust, Ireland
Magyar Allami Operahaz, Hungary
Fondazione Teatro Dell'Opera di Roma Capitale, Italy
Hrvarstsko Narodno Kazaliste u Zagrebu, Croatia
Opera de Lille, France
Opera Vision is the title of a new project for opera in Europe in the digital environment. Opera Vision will offer a free-view, online, richly diverse curated season of European opera in partnership with 30 opera houses from 19 countries. Opera Vision will have a specific emphasis on attracting and cultivating young, emerging audiences, celebrating Europe’s cultural heritage and developing opera for the future.
Opera Vision will build on the successes of The Opera Platform (TOP). Opera Europa developed its first phase in partnership with the broadcaster ARTE and 15 contributing theatres selected from 12 European countries. TOP has built a reputation for the quality of its programming and gained a large international audience. In its current form and partnership, the platform goes offline in October 2017, and it is the ambition of Opera Vision to go live from then until the end of 2020.
In the period 2018-2020, Opera Vision will offer a platform with enriched content drawn from a more diverse partnership; the number of theatre partners has doubled to 30, and 60% of partners are new. The content will be more varied (full-length and short-form), inclusive (musical theatre in many forms) and regular (an average of two live streams per month). Harnessing ever-evolving technology, Opera Vision will reach deeper into the lives of our citizens and promote European cultural values to the world.
Opera Vision will:
- Gather a wide inclusive partnership of European opera theatres
- Offer full-length and short-form content which is varied and accessible
- Engage young audiences in partnership with educational and training organisations
- Celebrate the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage
- Develop the medium by innovative use of cutting-edge technology
- Broaden the platform’s reach through cross-sector collaboration
- Build towards a sustainable model for the future beyond 2020





