[ANPPOM-L] FWD: VII INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR NEW CHAMBER OPERAS “ORPHEUS” 2005-2006

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 > Subject:  VII  INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR NEW CHAMBER OPERAS 
“ORPHEUS”
 > 2005-2006


ORPHEUS COMPETITION  2005-2006
FOR COMPOSERS
NEW CHAMBER OPERA PROJECTS
NEW FORMULA

THE TEATRO LIRICO SPERIMENTALE DI SPOLETO “A. BELLI”
in agreement with the
FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI SPOLETO

MINISTERO PER I BENI E LE ATTIVITA’ CULTURALI
in collaboration
RAI RADIO 3 – RAI TRADE
FONDAZIONE TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA

  ANNOUNCES THE
VII   INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR NEW CHAMBER OPERAS
  “ORPHEUS” 2005-2006 FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI SPOLETO


· The Jury.

The Jury will be preside over by Louis Andriessen.

The others members will be: Luca Francesconi (Italia), David Lang (Stati 
Uniti), Michele dall’Ongaro (Rai Radio 3), Luigi Taglioni (Rai Trade), 
Mauro Trombetta (direttore artistico Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di 
Roma), Michelangelo Zurletti (direttore artistico Teatro Lirico 
Sperimentale di Spoleto).

·This year the Competition presents two phases.

A preliminary phase provides for selection of the opera plans (deadline 
is 2005, December 31st) consisting in synopsis, libretto and extract of 
the score lasting at least 10 minutes. By 2006, January 31st the Jury 
will choose at maximum three opera plans.

Later the finalists should explain how they want to complete their 
operas to the President of the Jury, the Artistic Director of the Teatro 
Lirico Sperimentale, a director and a conductor.

In the second phase, the three selected composers should complete the 
opera and send it no later than November 10th  2006.

·The Prizes.
Only after the completion of the opera, each selected composer will be 
awarded the
Prize Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto of Euro 3.000,00.

-         The winning composer – whom the Jury will choose within 2006, 
December 31st – will be awarded the Prize Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio 
di Spoleto of Euro 6.000,00 and the Special Prize “Tullio Profili” of 
Euro 5.000,00.

-     The world premiere of the winning opera will take place at the 
Teatro Caio Melisso during the 2007 Opera Season of the Teatro Lirico 
Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”.

-     The winning opera could be in case staged in Rome in 2008 within 
the program of the Teatro of the Opera of Rome.

The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto has the right to present also 
one of the two not winning operas as a world première.

The age of the composers has been elevated from 35 to 40 years (on 2005, 
December 31st).  An important innovation concerning a series of 
conferences, meetings and workshops for the students of composition of 
the Italian Conservatoires and of the School of Spoleto and Umbria.