The European Commission’s Creative Europe programme supports this new website created by a partnership led by Opera Europa, the European association of opera companies and festivals, with cultural broadcaster ARTE and fifteen opera companies: Austria: Wiener Staatsoper; Belgium: La Monnaie/De Munt Bruxelles; Finland: Finnish National Opera Helsinki; France: Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Opéra national de Lyon; Germany: Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Stuttgart; Italy: Teatro Regio Torino; Latvia: Latvian National Opera Riga; Netherlands: Dutch National Opera Amsterdam; Norway: Den Norske Opera og Ballett Oslo; Poland: Teatr Wielki Opera Naradowa Warsaw; Spain: Teatro Real Madrid; United Kingdom: Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera. This multinational partnership opens new perspectives for opera’s reach in Europe and beyond.
The Opera Platform will be available in three languages – English, French and German – and will offer free content, rich in information: full opera performances and extracts; synopses and background material; artist interviews and behind-the scenes documentaries. The opera houses of Europe invite you to discover their archives and their current productions.
The European opera season of the platform will add at least one new opera per month, subtitled in six languages – English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish – and available on demand for six months. New additional content will regularly enrich the offer.
The Opera Platform is launched with the live transmission from Madrid’s Teatro Real of La traviata. Further showcase operas in the launch month will include Król Roger from Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Kullervo from Finnish National Opera Helsinki and Valentina from Latvian National Opera Riga.
The Opera Platform comes to life for the celebration of the ninth edition of the European Opera Days, under this year’s theme ‘Opera alive and online’.
Link to The Opera Platform
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The Opera Platform is launched - free, live and on demand
Tomorrow, Friday 8 May 2015, the online community may discover a new platform entirely dedicated to opera. It aims to attract those who already love opera and those curious to try it for the first time