Twenty years of New Music Theater
The Neukölln Opera pays tribute to 400 years of music theater in Europe with the announcement of the twentieth Berlin Opera Prize. It is calling on composers up to the age of 35 to enter the competition. The motto: Take it or leave it!
Entrants are invited to produce a half-hour piece of musical theater under the motto "Take it or Leave it" - at the expense of the award sponsors and with premiere performances in Berlin. Concepts should be submitted that claim to be the legacy of European musical theater. This explicitly means "all genres of
musical theater between Monteverdi and the Beatles, Zappa
or clever musicals, i.e. also the pop culture field". The closing date for entries is May 1, 2017.
The Berlin Opera Prize, which has been awarded since 1997, is a unique realization competition for music theatre makers in the German-speaking world. It sets an example for competitions that have been launched at other opera houses.
The jury is made up of: Thomas Desi (Festival Director Musiktheatertage Wien), Arash Safaian (composer), Mária Szilágy (Festival Director, Budapest), Wiebke Roloff (Opernwelt), Andreas Altenhof (Directorate Neuköllner Oper, Berlin) and Bernhard Glocksin Artistic Director Neuköllner Oper, Berlin).
