This was the IMZ Academy Session on digital projects in opera + ballet

This online session “What does ‘good’ look like for digital projects in the Performing Arts?” examined the crucial relationship between technological + creative innovation.

This year marks the beginning of a new partnership between the IMZ and Fedora, the European Platform supporting innovation in opera and ballet. For the first time a prize for digital projects will take its place alongside Fedora’s prestigious prizes for opera, ballet and education, with the IMZ acting as expert partner in the competition process. Among all shortlisted projects, four digital projects were selected + announced for crowdfunding support, with the crowfunding campaigns taking place in the summer of 2020.

To mark this new initiative and to acknowledge the importance of digital innovation for the Performing Arts, Peter Maniura and Katharina Jeschke introduced the shortlisted projects and through them examined the crucial relationship between technological and creative innovation. They offered insights into what makes a really good creative collaboration and a successful audience experience. They will offered some reflections on potential guidelines and criteria for commissioning groundbreaking and excellent opera and ballet native digital projects.

Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Karajan Music Tech Conference took place online. Find out more about it at www.karajanmusictech.com