Opera Europa

Opera Europa is the international service organisation for professional opera companies and opera festivals in Europe. It is incorporated in Brussels as a not-for-profit organisation.
With roots going back to 1995, Opera Europa gained its present format and name in 2002, on the merger of the European Opera Network and the Eurolyrica associations. It had 233 member companies in 44 different countries as of October 2023.

Activities

For the benefit of its member companies, it runs forums, databases, a quarterly newsletter, and twice-yearly conferences, and offers reciprocal membership benefits with Opera America.

European Opera Days

Opera Europa co-ordinates the annual European Opera Days when opera companies across Europe open their doors to the general public, with opera house tours, open rehearsals, talks and special events. The first European Opera Days were held in 2007, and since then have taken place each year on the weekend closest to the EU's Europe Day, 9 May.

Opera Platform

Opera Europa is the lead partner behind the Opera Platform, a service launched in May 2015 to offer free live streams of operas via the web. The three-year project to stream one free production every month received half of its 3.9 million euro budget from the European Union's Creative Europe programme, the other half coming from the 15 opera companies providing the content. The Franco-German TV network Arte is providing the technological platform.
The Opera Platform won the Accessibility category in the 2016 edition of the International Opera Awards. In 2017, the Opera Platform became the free streaming service OperaVision.

European Opera-directing Prize (EOP)

Since 2001, in collaboration with the Camerata Nuova e.V. in Wiesbaden, Germany, Opera Europa supports a biennial competition, the European Opera-directing Prize for young opera directors and design teams up to the age of 35. The total prize money is 42,500 euros, supplied by Camerata Nuova, with 20,000 euros for the winning concept and have their production mounted by a European opera company.

Year	Opera	Winning team	Premiere	Sponsoring company
2001	Fidelio	Matthias Lutz, Julia Hansen	29 April 2002	Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden
2003	Hans Heiling	Andreas May, David König	28 February 2004	Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg
2005	La Cenerentola	Thaddeus Strassberger, Mattie Ullrich	22 April 2006	Opera Ireland, Dublin
2007	Rusalka	Johannes Gleim, Daniela Juckel	30 March 2008	Latvian National Opera, Riga
2009	La finta giardiniera	Anna Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Sibylle Wallum	1 April 2010	Stadttheater Bern
2011	I Capuleti e i Montecchi	Sam Brown, Annemarie Woods	27 September 2012	As.Li.Co., Como and tour
2013	Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci	Second prize; first prize not awarded		Stadttheater Klagenfurt
2015	Weiße Rose	Joint first prize: Niki Ellinidou, Nefeli Myrtidi	22 October 2016	Oper Köln
2015	Weiße Rose	Anna Drescher, Hudda Chukri	4 November 2016
2016	La traviata	Andrea Bernard Elena Beccaro, Alberto Beltrame	October 2017	, Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto