Opera Creation Forum

The Opera Creation Forum is a new, paid, professional development opportunity for composers and writers at any stage of their professional career who want to gain intensive, hands-on training in the collaborative art of opera creation. A co-production between Musique 3 Femmes and Opéra de Montréal, the OCF will be hosted by Opéra de Montréal and directed by opera composer and dramaturg, Luna Pearl Woolf. Taking place from February 5-16, 2025, in Montreal, Quebec, the Forum will provide four composers and four writers the opportunity to work with performers, directors, and opera creation mentors, focusing on the process and principles of collaboration, and working through exploratory assignments. Each creator will be partnered with each writer and performer in rotation, to create four new works within the twelve-day intensive. Immediate feedback will come through reading and discussion sessions between each creation period, and an informal showcase at the end of the Forum will give invited guests a chance to hear the outcome of participants' experience. If you’ve heard of Tapestry Opera’s Lib Lab, or Nautilus Music Theater’s Composer Librettist Studio, you have a sense of the kind of focused learning and creative development energy that the OCF aims to provide. 

 

The Opera Creation Forum is made possible because of the generous support of Mecenat Musica, the Azrieli Foundation and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. ​​​​​

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