Metropolitan Opera streams free performances in response to coronavirus pandemic
THE Metropolitan Opera is one of the numerous cultural establishments in New York that recently closed in an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
While the New York Times estimates that the Met Opera will likely lose between US$8 million (RM34.9 million) and US$12 million (RM52.3 million) in box office revenues by the end of March, the institution recently announced the launch of its free Nightly Met Opera Streams series.
This new offering sees the Met Opera streaming encore presentations from its awardwinning Live in HD series of cinema transmissions on its website for the duration of the closure, which began on Monday with a 2010 performance of Bizet’s Carmen.
This opera was conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, while El na Garan a led the cast as Carmen and Roberto Alagna as Don José.
Other performances streaming include Puccini’s La Bohème (which aired Tuesday), Verdi’s Il Trovatore (yesterday), Verdi’s La Traviata (today), Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment (tomorrow), Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Saturday), and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Sunday).
All Nightly Met Opera Streams will begin at 7.30pm (EST) and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours. is nothing new. Embarrassing grown men has been her trademark from the moment she started her comedy career way back in the city’s hippest nightclub, the Boom Boom Room.
Her routine brought the house down. One could even say she stole the show that night.
Her interaction with the audience was so natural. And no wonder, she knows the tricks of building a great rapport with her audience, and that is the secret behind her longevity in the entertainment
“We’d like to provide some grand opera solace to opera lovers in these extraordinarily difficult times. Every night, we’ll be offering a different complete operatic gem from our collection of HD presentations from the past 14 years,” Met General Manager Peter Gelb said in a statement.
The launch of Nightly Met Opera Streams arrived a few days after the Met Opera cancelled all performances and rehearsals through March 31 in an effort to slow the spread of the new industry.
The final act for the night w a s Singapore’s very own Sharul, armed with a diploma in acting and a Bachelor’s degree in communications.
She became the first Singaporean woman to be chosen for the prestigious Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which led to a sold-out tour across Australia and Asia.
She talked about the time when she almost committed adultery, and what stopped her from going through with the adultery was downright hilarious.
Personally, I love jokes laced with coronavirus.
The institution guaranteed that the value of any tickets purchased for cancelled shows will be credited to patrons’ accounts, which can be used to buy tickets in the future for the 2019-20 or 2020-21 seasons.
Meanwhile, European opera houses are also embracing digital means to bring performances to opera aficionados as several countries are declaring nationwide lockdowns across the continent. sexual innuendos as long as they are tastefullydone, but unfortunately, the show went overboard with sexual innuendos.
After a while, the routines got a little predictable and stale. The worst part was that some of the jokes were downright silly, juvenile and childish.
But most of the audience loved what was presented onstage. They had a good time.
Making a crowd laugh is not an easy thing to do and for that, the four women comedians deserved a standing ovation.
The European Commission-funded OperaVision recently announced the launch of a month-long online festival of Mozart operas, freely accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
The initiative, running through April 17, will allow audiences to stream six performances from four opera companies, live and ondemand.
Among them are La Monnaie’s Da Ponte trilogy, which interlaces the stories of Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni.
The three operas have notably been staged by the same artistic team, with most singers doubling up in two roles.
“In these exceptional circumstances of not being able to play to audiences in our theatre, we are grateful that OperaVision enables our meticulously conceived and rehearsed Mozart/da Ponte Trilogy to be experienced through streaming. I am also grateful to all the artists who have committed to performing the three operas under these unprecedented conditions,” La Monnaie’s Director Peter de Caluwe said in a statement.
Additional highlights of OperaVision’s online festival include Scottish opera director David McVicar’s production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, as well as Il sogno di Scipione in a production from the iconic Teatro La Fenice Venice. – AFP-Relaxnews