New opera website to offer free live streams of performances worldwide

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Series Details 08.05.15
Publication Date 08/05/2015
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Article reports on the launch of The Opera Platform on the 8 May 2015. This new website is supported by the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme and created by a partnership led by Opera Europa – the European association of opera companies and festivals – with cultural broadcaster ARTE and 15 European opera companies.

The Opera Platform will offer free content from the 15 opera companies involved. This will include full opera performances and extracts, synopses and background material, artist interviews and behind-the-scenes documentaries.

The opera partners are: Wiener Staatsoper; La Monnaie/De Munt Brussels; Finnish National Opera Helsinki; Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Opéra national de Lyon; Komische Oper Berlin; Staatstheater Stuttgart; Teatro Regio di Torino; Latvian National Opera Riga; Dutch National Opera and Ballet Amsterdam; Den Norske Opera og Ballett Oslo; Teatr Wielki/Opera Naradowa Warsaw; Teatro Real Madrid; Royal Opera House Covent Garden; and Welsh National Opera.

Source Link Link to Main Source http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/08/new-opera-website-to-offer-free-live-streams-of-performances-worldwide
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Website: Opera Platform http://www.theoperaplatform.eu
European Commission: Programmes: Creative Europe http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/
Website: Opera Europa http://www.opera-europa.org/

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