News of OMF’s Inaugural Event

The programme for Opera and the Media of the Future is coming together.

Day One (Friday 24th October, 2014) will focus on Opera Audiences, and will feature talks and panel discussions on Opera Cinecasts, Current Audience ResearchThe Future Mediascape, and Audience Development, Education & Marketing.

Day Two (Saturday the 25th of October 2014) will focus on New Forms for Opera and will feature sessions on New Media and Opera, Opera on Web and Mobile Platforms, and presentations of/on the OMF Mini Web Opera Commissions.

We are pleased to welcome academic speakers Martin Barker, David Berry, Sally Jane Norman and Aine Sheil (among others), many participants from the opera world including John Fulljames (Royal Opera House), David Pickard (Glyndebourne) and Tim Hopkins (Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre), and composers / media artists Jaakko Nousiainen, Martin Reiser and Robert Thomas.