Genesis Foundation
Genesis Foundation: Nuturing Emerging Talents In The Arts
Tête à Tête Opera
Tête à Tête was founded in 1997 and has made a particular name for producing and promoting new, small-scale operatic works. The Genesis Foundation's collaboration with Tête à Tête was launched in 2007 with support for the company's Blind Date Tour, which presented six short operas by six different composers in the course of one evening. Subsequently, the Foundation committed to two further years of funding.
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The Royal Opera House
OperaGenesis, the programme funded by the Genesis Foundation at the Royal Opera House (ROH2), reached its conclusion in Autumn 2009, having brought together more than 30 creative teams over the previous four year. As a result of Opera Genesis more than 20 opera projects are in various stages of development.
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Visual Arts: Bill Viola
The first ever Genesis Foundation project in the visual arts The pieces that make up The Passions are displayed on digital flat panel screens that not only give a bright, sharp picture but are portable and can be exhibited in a normal gallery setting rather like the small devotional paintings whose format Viola wants to echo.
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Genesis Opera Project 2
The panel for the second Genesis Opera Project met in August 2003 and selected a semi-final list of six projects for the workshops in 2004, having begun with an entry of 210 projects. The semi-final short list included: Hippocampus or Lonely; The Original Chinese Conjuror; The Tramway Conductor of Venice; The Umbrella; Push! and Sante and Augustine (as the work was then known).
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Genesis Opera Project 1
In July 2003, after the first-ever season of Genesis-commissioned operas, John Studzinski, Chairman of the Genesis Opera Project, announced the outcome of the first Genesis Opera Project. The panel decided to apportion a £20,000 prize across the three creative teams in recognition of the different but very real achievements of their strong, diverse talents and approaches.
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Concerts
In 2002-03, as part of celebrations to commemorate the composer Robert Schumann, the Genesis Foundation presented a series of concerts at St John’s, Smith Square, in London. The artistic director behind this series was the pianist Eugene Asti, the the series was an opportunity to give young, developing opera singers a platform to show off their skills as lieder singers.
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Creative Businesses
The Genesis Foundation formed a partnership with the Prince's Trust in 2002 to support a new strand of Creative Businesses. The aim was that these should be all new business ventures by young people that in some way were associated with the arts.
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Genesis Sixteen
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Monday, 26 September 2011We are delighted to present this short film which follows the first Genesis Sixteen training course, the UK's first fully-funded choral programme for young singers.
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Genesis Sixteen Continue to Flourish
Friday, 3 February 2012
The first group of talented young singers to make up the Genesis Sixteen will take part in an intensive training course this weekend, the third in their programme, at the National Opera Studios in London.
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