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Support the New Generation Foundation

Behind every performance is a community of supporters who believe in what we do. From training the stars of tomorrow, to restoring lost musical masterpieces, and bringing festivals to new audiences, your generosity funds the moments that stay with people long after the curtain falls. Find out how you can get involved and help us create something extraordinary.

Mascarade Opera

Providing exceptional training and professional opportunities for emerging opera artists across a two-year journey.

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Mascarade Opera

Your donation can support a gifted singer through Mascarade Opera's intensive two-year flagship programme, or our one-year Talent Pathway for younger voices.

Every contribution helps fund world-class training, accommodation, and a living stipend — giving exceptional artists the freedom to focus entirely on their craft.

To find out more or discuss a named gift, please contact Jennifer Cormack, Director of Development:

2 years Scholarship

€120,000

A donation of €120,000 will support a named scholarship for two years.

1 year Scholarship

€45,000

A donation of €45,000 will support one year of the Talent Pathway Programme for younger singers.

New Generation Festival

Bringing world-class opera and ballet to new audiences through breathtaking performances.

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New Generation Festival

Since 2017, the New Generation Festival has united the finest talents in opera and across the arts in breathtaking locations around the world.

In June 2027, we celebrate our tenth anniversary with a landmark series of performances in Florence and beyond.

Places are limited — to find out more and reserve yours, contact Jennifer Cormack, Director of Development:

New Generation Festival 2027

Coming Soon

For the time being, you can support the cultural life of Florence for residents and visitors alike by sponsoring concerts

Support Concerts

€24,000

Support the cultural life of Florence for residents and visitors alike by sponsoring concerts throughout the year, giving  talented young artists the opportunity to develop their performance skills.

A donation of €24,000 would support an annual cycle of 9 concerts presented in the Palazzo Corsini al Prato.

Vox Medicea

Restoring Florence's rich musical heritage while giving today's musicians a repertoire rooted in the city's extraordinary cultural past.

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Vox Medicea

The New Generation Foundation offers a rare opportunity — not simply to support the arts, but to shape cultural history. Your generosity will help rediscover, revive, and restore the music of the Medici, bringing centuries of beauty back to life through world-class research, training, and performance.

To find out more about how you can be part of this extraordinary project, contact Jennifer Cormack, Director of Development:

Scholarships for 40 young singers

€40,000

A gift of €40,000 would provide full scholarships for 40 young singers to attend the Florence Choral Course, removing financial barriers for talented young artists.  

Support the Choir of the Basilica di Santo Spirito

€20,000

A gift of €20,000 would support the new Choir of the Basilica of Santo Spirito for one year.

Ways of giving

Every donation helps support the performing arts in Florence, supporting gifted emerging artists, the creation of new productions, and the restoration of Renaissance masterpieces. You can donate by cheque or by bank transfer.  You can make tax-efficient donations in the following ways.  

For more information on ways to give and for residents of other countries please contact Jennifer Cormack, Director of Development at jc@newgenerationfoundation.com.

US

US taxpayers can donate via CAF America.

Make a Donation

UK

UK taxpayers can donate via the Classic Concerts Trust.

Make a Donation

Italy

Italian taxpayers can donate directly to the Fondazione Mascarade Opera.

Make a Donation

Scholarships for talented young artists

Support a gifted performer through our Mascarade Opera programme, covering their full two-year training, accommodation, and living stipend. Your named scholarship will launch a career and create a lasting legacy. Alternatively, we offer younger singers a stepping-stone onto further study via our one-year Talent Pathway.

A donation of €120,000 will support a named scholarship fort wo years.

A donation of €45,000 will support one year of the Talent Pathway Programme for younger singers.

Support breathtaking performances

Provide talented young artists with the opportunity to develop their performance skills and support the cultural life of Florence for residents and visitors alike by supporting concerts throughout the year.

A donation of €24,000 would support an annual cycle of 9 concerts presented in the Palazzo Corsini al Prato.

Alternatively a donation of €8,000 would support a season of concerts, staged in either autumn, winter or spring.

Ways to give

You can make tax-deductible donations to support MascaradeOpera in the following ways.

UK taxpayers can donate via the Classic Concerts Trusts
Classic Concerts Trust in GBP (£) - Mascarade Opera

Italian taxpayers can donate directly to the FondazioneMascarade Opera.
PayPal in EUR (€) - Fondazione Mascarade Opera

Become a member

Get access to exclusive events while supporting the New Generation Foundation.

Club Membership

Take part in NGF exclusive events by becoming a member of the NGF Club and enjoy priority booking and special benefits.

By invitation only.  New prospective members of The NGF Club will need to be proposed by two current members.

U35 membership

Enjoy priority booking for regular seats before public booking and complimentary interval reception at festival shows.

Support Us through Artistic Patronage

The Portrait Cycle

A new artistic initiative in support of the foundation’s scholarship endowment for the training of the world’s most talented emerging opera artists.  The cycle of ten portraits will be painted by Jamie Coreth and will hang on the walls of the foundation’s grand ‘Salone dei Concerti’. The ten patrons subscribed to the honour of a portrait by supporting the foundation at the highest level are sure to enter history and be immortalised in distinguished company.

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The Portrait Cycle

Since graduating from both Florence’s Academy of Art and Charles Cecil Studios, Jamie Coreth has become one of today’s most celebrated young painters. Coreth is a winner of the BP Young Artist Award and has had several works exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the latest of which is his much-admired portrait of The Prince and Princess of Wales.  Inspired by the humanist themes of the Renaissance, Coreth’s cycle will draw on Ovid’s Metamorphoses to symbolise the transformative power of the arts.

The donation structure to join this exclusive group of supporters consists of

€ 60,000 to book your place in Jamie Coreth’s cycle.

Followed by €60,000 per annum over three years; after which time the commitment can be reviewed and renewed.

Donors who sit for the cycle will be known as ‘Portrait Companions’ and have the option of attaching their name to a scholarship. The scholarship recipient will then be credited as an artist supported by the assigned ‘Portrait Companion’ in perpetuity.

THE PORTRAITS ARE A GIFT TO THE FOUNDATION FROM THE SITTERS, AND THE DONATION STRUCTURE IS TAX-DEDUCTIBLE.

For further information, please contact:

2 years Scholarship

€120,000

A donation of €120,000 will support a named scholarship for two years.

1 year Scholarship

€45,000

A donation of €45,000 will support one year of the Talent Pathway Programme for younger singers.

With thanks to our supporters

Honorary Patrons

Principe Filippo Corsini & Family

Honorary President

HRH The Duke of Kent

Principal Patrons and Benefactors

Mikhail Bakhtiarov and
Svetlana Besfamilnaya

Major Benefactors

Maria Manetti Shrem 
Jim and Lynne Walton,  
The Reschio Estate

Benefactors

The Vivien and Peter Beckwith Young Musicians’ Trust 
Nic and Henrietta Fiddian-Green
Jennifer Hodgson 
Stefan and Kerry Linn 
Dominic West and Catherine FitzGerald

Patrons

Jacques Der Megreditchian
Bona Frescobaldi
Virginia & Richard Gabbertas
Ailene Hunter
The Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation
Clara & Percy Weatherall

Members

Russ & Linda Carr 
Claudia & Marc Groothaert 
Sonia & Berj Kalaidjian 
Alessandro and Marjorie Layden-Ghinelli

Mascarade Sponsors

Steinway & Sons 

Outreach Sponsors

Alatia & David Bach
Angela Brandys

Concerts Sponsors

Charles & Caroline Pridgeon
Sir David Scholey

Sponsors of the Sacred Music Programme

Gonfalonieri

Charles Klein 
Alexandra Munroe 
Katherine Zock

The Signoria

Sir Richard Aikens 
Kim D. Leeper and 
Elaine Giedrys-Leeper 
Katherine D Schimmel
And all those who wish to remain anonymous

Founding Patrons and Life Members

Anonymous in the name of ‘Afghan Connection’
Florian Amereller and Margarita Andrade
Adam Baghdadi Sarah and Jonathan Bayliss
Sarah and Anthony Bolton
Jean Michel Broun
Michael Dent
Jacques Der Megreditchian & family
Peter Fane
Nicholas Gaisman
The Duchess of Richmond
The Granville Family
Jennifer Hodgson
Lady Tessa Keswick
Patrick Kinmonth
Peter Lammer
Michael Lewis The Hon. Michael Marks
Alan May Simon Prior-Palmer
Ray Prudo and family
Catherine & Clive Richardson-Vassallo
Sybil Robson-Orr and Matthew Orr Ramin Sabi
Jean Salata and Melanie Pong
Jonathan Small and Marcus Askew
William Wells
Christopher White

Contacts

Director of Development

Jennifer Cormack

jc@newgenerationfoundation.com+44 (0)7939 124675

The New Generation Foundation

Palazzo Corsini al Prato
Florence, Italy