FESTIVAL OPERA PRIMA CALL FOR ENTRIES

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Selection of performances for Opera Prima Festival XXI Rovigo, 11 / 15 June 2025

The call is open to single artists or emerging and independent professional companies that work with professional purposes in the field of contemporary theatre, dance and performing arts.

Deadline: 10th December 2024

PREMISES

The Festival is organized by the Association Festival Opera Prima. Coherently with its history, Opera Prima wants to host and enhance the multiplicity of trends and researches in contemporary theatre.

The Festival also wants to become a bridge between different theatrical generations: in addition to the performances selected by this call, every year there will be four European important theatre/dance/performing artists or groups, that have to invite to the festival an unknown young artist or an unknown young group.

THE OBJECT OF THE CALL

This call for entries is opened to national and international groups or artists that practice experimental theatre or experimentation on scenic languages.

By experimental theatre we mean a work that truly experiments with the dramaturgy (interpreted as scenic composition), the actor, the spectator and the scenic space.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

The call is opened to Italian and international individuals or groups of professional theatre and performing arts, structured in any legal form that allows them to fulfil the administrative and bureaucratic practices necessary to realise their performance.

Only artistic projects that realise experimentation with scenic languages are eligible for selection. Amateur works, drama theater

and performances of entertainment won’t be selected.

The Festival commission selects both original works that have not been yet performed, as well as works that have already debut, but which have not had an adequate circulation and/or visibility. The submitted works must be no longer than 60 minutes.

SUBMISSION

Submissions must include:

  • Artistic curriculum of the company or the artist;
  • Artistic form and technical rider of the performance;
  • Link to the full video of the performance (if the proposal consists of a debut, link to a video of rehearsals). Video material has to be viewed directly online (by a link) and it mustn’t be downloaded (no wetransfer, google drive, etc.).

Each group or individual can submit only one proposal.

The application has to be sent fulfilling the form online at https://forms.gle/P3fwZRyw8z6J2gF4A by 12.00 am on December 10th 2024.

If someone hasn’t got a google account, it is possible to send the material by mail to operaprimafestival@gmail.com.

We do not accept other ways of sending materials.

Participants authorize, pursuant to Law 196/2003 and GDPR – European Regulation no. 2016/679, the processing of personal data and the use of the sent informations for all the purposes related to the announcement.

SELECTION

The selection of the performances is entrusted to the unquestionable judgment of the artistic direction of the Festival.

By submitting their candidacy, participants authorise the use of sent images for the communication and publications related to the initiative

PUBLICATION OF RESULTS

The contact person of the selected projects is going to be contacted by Association Festival Opera Prima once the selection process has been completed. Anyhow, the selected artists/groups’ names are going to be published on the website of the Festival.

CONDITIONS

The selected performances are going to be included in the XXI edition of Festival Opera Prima and are going to be performed from the 11th to the 15th of June 2025.

All expenses and practices concerning the organisation, communication, staff, promotion of the event will be in charge of the Festival.

At each selected company will be paid, after the presentation of an invoice, a fee that has to be agreed and will be guaranteed the possibility of lodging at an affiliated guesthouse (just for the artists and technicians working in the performance).

CALENDAR AND PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

All the performances are going to be realised in Rovigo inside the venues used by the Festival from the 11th to the 15th June 2025. It is possible to realise performances also in unconventional locations and outdoor. The artistic direction can ask the selected company to realise more replies of the performance in the same day.

OBLIGATIONS

Selected candidates commit to:

  • support the promotion of FESTIVAL OPERA PRIMA throughout their channels (web site, social, press office…);
  • respect Festival praxis regarding set-up times and rules;
  • perform the selected work on the agreed day or days.

Participation in the announcement implies full acceptance of this regulation.

The organization reserves the right to decide on issues not expected by this regulation.