The Opera Forward Festival (OFF) is an annual festival for new contemporary opera productions. The festival explores the future of opera and presents opera as a relevant and forward-thinking artform to a wide audience.
The 2025 edition reflects on the past while looking ahead: how did we get here, and where do we go next? In an era of polarization, crisis, and conflict, a way forward is sought. What aim, what future, what peace?
Ammodo has supported the Opera Forward Festival since 2018, with funding committed until 2027.
A selection of the productions developed for OFF
We Are The Lucky Ones (2025)
Oum – A Son’s Quest for His Mother (2025)
The Four Note Opera (2024)
The Shell Trial (2024)
Oedipus Rex / Antigone (2024)
Animal Farm (2023)
Ändere die Welt! (2023)
Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine (2023)
I have missed you forever (2022)
Eurydice – Die Liebenden, blind (2022)
Ritratto (2020)
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt (2020)
Girls of the Golden West (2019)