13.00

Registration opens

14.30

Main Auditorium
Welcome
István Hiller, Hungarian Minister of Education and Culture
Lajos Vass, Director-General of HSO
Ádám Fischer, Music Director of HSO

15.00

Keynote address
Ioan Holender, Direktor Wiener Staatsoper

15.45

Coffee break

16.15

Grand Buffet
Opening plenary debate:
Making opera today in Central Europe
Balázs Kovalik, Artistic Director of HSO
Waldemar Dąbrowski, General Director of Polish National Opera
Tomaš Hanus, Principal Guest Conductor of National Theatre Brno – tbc

Bertalan Székely Hall
European Opera Days 2010 & 2011
Ideas and inspiration for events with Katherine Heid (RESEO) and Valérie Samuel (ROF/Opus 64)

17.30

End of the day's sessions

19.00

Bartók’sBluebeard’s Castle
conducted by Ádám Fischer and staged by Hartmut Schörghofer

22.00

Post-performance reception in the House of Parliament

09.30

Bertalan Székely Hall
Ballet and Opera
Brigitte Lefèvre (Paris), Ivan Liška (Munich) and Anthony Russell-Roberts (London ROH), moderated by Truze Lodder (Amsterdam)

Red Salon
Marketing / Fundraising / Business forum
Commercial initiatives: events, opera spaces to let, merchandising
Jean-Yves Kaced (Paris), Roger Sleijpen (Brussels) and Sarah Hopwood (Glyndebourne - tbc)

11.00

Coffee break

11.30

Bertalan Székely Hall
Repertoire and Stagione
Serge Dorny (Lyon), Hans-Joachim Frey (Bremen), Christoph Meyer (Düsseldorf - tbc) and Fortunato Ortombina (Venice), moderated by Kasper Holten (Copenhagen)

Red Salon
Business / Fundraising forum
Funding techniques for C.E.T.
Greg Duszynski (Warsaw), Daphné Tepper (Culture Action Europe) and Edit Székely (Cultural Contact Point Hungary - tbc), moderated by Susan Fisher (London ROH)

2nd floor room 1
Marketing forum
CRM tools: databases supporting marketing actions
With Adam Huttler (Audience Engagement Platform New York) and representatives from Berlin, London, Munich

13.00

Lunch

14.30

Bertalan Székely Hall
Traditional and Modern
Ulrike Hessler (Dresden – tbc), Andreas Homoki (Berlin Komische Oper) and Walter Vergnano (Torino), moderated by Peter de Caluwe (Brussels)

Red Salon
Business forum
Financial database
Presentation by Benoît Terray
Strategies & perspectives of opera houses in Europe and North America
Book project update from Philippe Agid

2nd floor room 1
Fundraising Academy
Study of best practices for fundraising in opera
Presentation by Deloitte Madrid with Marisa Vázquez-Shelly (Madrid )

2nd floor room 2
Technical forum
Theatre technical training project

16.15

Bertalan Székely Hall
Opera Europa General Assembly

Red Salon
Business forum
Administrative systems for the opera house
SAP ICRM…

17.30

End of the day's sessions

19.00

Beethoven’s Fidelio
Conducted by János Kovács and staged by Balázs Kovalik

22.00

The evening of Hungarian wines – wine tasting

09.30

Grand Buffet
Recovery plans: surviving hard times
Joint seminar by Marc Scorca, CEO OPERA America, and Nicholas Payne

Red Salon
General & Artistic Directors' forum
Future new productions
Moderated by Elaine Padmore (London ROH)

2nd floor room 1
Marketing forum
How to reach the iPod generation
With a panel of young participants

Technical forum
Technical guided tour

11.00

Coffee break

11.30

Grand Buffet
Closing plenary session:
The artist’s approach
With Vladimir Jurowski

13.00

End of the conference

14.30

Guided tour of the city by bus or bicycle