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The Projects
Where the next generation takes the stage
Mascarade Opera
Mascarade Opera is the Foundation's flagship performance and training programme for emerging singers, offering intensive artistic development through fully staged opera productions and tailored professional opportunities across Europe.
Rediscovering Florence Sacred Music
Vox Medicea
For hundreds of years, the music of Medici Florence has lain dormant in archives across Europe, unperformed and largely forgotten. The New Generation Foundation is committed to the belief that this creative legacy does not belong solely to the past. Through Vox Medicea, it seeks to rediscover, revive, and restore this extraordinary repertoire, bringing it back into living performance while training a new generation of specialist musicians to carry it forward.
A season of opera, ballet, and jazz
New Generation Festival
The Festival presents a curated summer programme of opera, ballet, jazz, and live performance in Florence, bringing together international artists and emerging talent from the Foundation.
The Foundation
The New Generation Foundation is an independent non-profit based at Palazzo Corsini al Prato in Florence, dedicated to supporting the next generation of artists through performance, education and research. Originally founded in 2017 as the New Generation Festival by Frankie Parham, Roger Granville and Maximilian Fane, the initiative was created to champion exceptional young talent from around the world through opera, music and the arts. Following the success and international recognition of the Festival, including the landmark ReGeneration Festival presented in collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries during the summer of 2020, the Foundation expanded into a year-round cultural institution. Today, the Foundation encompasses three principal branches: the New Generation Festival, Mascarade Opera and Vox Medicea. Together, these programmes foster artistic excellence across disciplines, combining high-level performance opportunities with advanced training and scholarly research.
News & Info
September 25, 2026
Nouveaux Ballets Russes - A New Ballet Company Is Born
The Company will make its debut at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in March 2027 with the world premiere of a new production of Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Marking 150 years since the ballet’s first performance, the production will feature choreography by Xander Parish, Artistic Director and co-founder of the Nouveaux Ballets Russes, with James Conlon conducting.
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January 27, 2026
Mascarade Opera Presents the Spring 2026 Concert Season
Opera, chamber music and advanced training at Palazzo Corsini al Prato Florence is preparing to welcome a new musical season that brings tradition and modernity into dialogue, uniting education and pe…
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Palazzo Corsini al Prato
The glorious spaces of the New Generation Foundation at the Palazzo Corsini al Prato are situated in a 16th-century palace in the grounds of one of Florence’s largest and most beautiful private gardens, offering various options that are suitable for a wide range of corporate and private events.
