The new Patronat de les Arts approves the start of the selection process for the Artistic Directorate of the opera coliseum

The Board of Trustees of the Palau de les Arts has approved the members of the managing body and the call for the public competition for the Artistic Direction square of the opera coliseum.

Of the members of the Board, there are 17 members, 6 of which come from the Valencian civil society and 11 are institutional representatives. The promoter of the Fundació Per Amor a l'Art, Susana Lloret, has been ratified as president of the Patronat de les Arts. Així mateix, they have been effective with our members the former manager of the Príncep Felipe Research Center, Isabel Muñoz; the former Minister of Culture and patron of the Royal Theater of Madrid, Carmen Alborch; the co-president of the Valencian Institute of Infertility (IVI), José Remohí; the head of the Dulcesol company, Rafael Juan, and the president of the Association of Opera and Arts of the Valencian Community, Pablo Font de Mora.

Regarding institutional representation, President Ximo Puig occupies the honorary presidency and the members who complete the Board of Trustees of the Palau de les Arts Foundation are: the Minister of Education, Research, Culture and Sports, Vicent Marzà; the regional secretary of Culture and Sports, Albert Girona; the regional secretary of Hisenda, Clara Ferrando; the regional secretary of Tourism, Francesc Colomer; the general director of Culture and Heritage, Carmen Amoraga; the general director of the Public Sector, Juan Ángel Poyatos; the assistant secretary of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports Research, José Villar; the general director of the Valencian Institute of Culture, Abel Guarinos, and the member of the Valencian Culture Council, Ramon Roselló. Both the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the INAEM also have two reserves reserved at the Patronat.

The mandate of the current patrons of the Arts is established for a period of five years and they can be re-elected indefinitely.

Artistic Directorate of the Arts

The new Board has approved the contest rules, according to the Code of Practical Bones in Valencian Culture, for the selection of candidates who aspire to obtain the Artistic Directorship of the Valencian opera coliseum.

The Fundació de les Arts has also determined the components of the evaluation committee for the different candidates. This committee will be made up of 9 members. As established by the Code of Practical Bones in Valencian Culture, three are institutional representatives, three are more experts in the field of poetry and culture, and three are representatives of civil society.

Who is at the heart of poetry and culture, is shared by Christina Scheppelmann, artistic director of the Liceu de Barcelona; Joan Matabosch, artistic director of the Teatro Real of Madrid, and Ana Luisa Chova, professor of Cant at the Conservatori Superior de Música de València.

The representatives of the civil society who will form part of the evaluation commission will be Pablo Font de Mora, president of the Friends of Opera and Arts of the Valencian Community; Ramon Roselló, from the Valencian Culture Council, and Vicent Ros, director of the Palau de la Música de València.

Susana Lloret, president of the Patronat de les Arts; Marga Landete, deputy director of Music and Popular Culture of the IVC, and José Villar, assistant secretary of the Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sports, will make up the institutional representation of the evaluation commission.

Appraisal of the appraisal commission

Each candidacy will have to present a project with both the artistic proposal and the management of this project. Please include the proposal for the next two opera seasons, until the end of the contract.

The proposal that is present has included all the scenic spaces of the Arts and must be related to the operatic programming and also to the musical, the choreographic and the scenic in all its various varieties.

Així mateix, the projects of the candidates hauran d'include lines of action to guarantee that the Arts follow a space for internationalization and operatic excellence, that the arts of the space strive to maximize the fact that it makes the set of disciplines and that it makes a symphonic proposal from the Orchestra of the Valencian Community. Furthermore, there will be a proposal for the design of the Plácido Domingo Improvement Center and a definitive project for the technical, didactic and formatting team.

 The committee will evaluate the relevant specific training of the candidate, along with musical knowledge, international experience and experience in educational projects; the capacity to adapt to the current artistic model of the Arts, together with the capacity for artistic innovation and management; team leadership training; a proven national and international networking agenda in the field of opera theaters, public relations capacity in the opera world, and management knowledge and economic vision of programming to design an economically sustainable contingency.

Requests and characteristics of the contract

The call for the competition to gain access to the Artistic Directorate is to be published on the next few days in the 'Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana'. The deadline for submitting applications will be 30 calendar days from the day following publication in the DOGV.

The person designated to occupy the position will sign a senior management contract, which will have a duration of 4 years, extendable to 4 years plus an evaluation process of the management carried out.

Percebre's gross annual remuneration will be between 120,000 and 135,000 euros, according to the functions assigned to him.