Anthony Heidweiller is artistic director of the Yo! Opera Festival & Laboratory and developed from singer in the chorus of the Dutch Opera to freelance opera maker. In 1998 he made a flying start with Hot Hands, the Basketball Opera, performed by his own company, Buffo Operamakers. By now he is not only singer/opera maker but also a developer of innovative forms of opera. Among other things, he created the concept for ‘Opera from the Heart’ (thirty 3-minute shopping mall opera’s), ‘Opera in de the Bus’ (community opera project in co-production with the Utrecht city bus company, GVU) and ‘Water’ (site-specific vocal journey at a water treatment plant).
Apart from his work as artistic director of the Yo! Opera Festival, Heidweiller teaches at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague and works as a freelance director. He is currently working on a new opera about Marco Polo and a third version of ‘Opera Flat’  in the neighborhood of Overvecht.

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