One of the first measures to combat the coronavirus was a ban on public events. Many musicians and actors were temporarily unemployed, but for connoisseurs of art, the management of theaters and philharmonic societies decided to move the performances of the artists online. We offer a guide to Internet platforms for those who want to get closer to beauty.
European theaters have opened archives with recordings of their performances. For example, the Berlin Philharmonic offers free listening and viewing archival recordings of famous performances. To do this, you must register on the site before March 30.
The Electrotheatre begins to broadcast performances and lectures of the "School of the Modern Spectator and Listener" on social networks. The Bolshoi Theater decided not to stage performances with an empty hall, and on March 29 will publish a recording of the ballet Romeo and Juliet.
The Metropolitan Opera has launched the Nightly Met Opera Streams project in connection with the quarantine. The broadcasts take place at night Moscow time, but it is not necessary to break the sleep mode for viewing: for 20 hours, all performances remain available on the site.
One of the most famous opera houses in the world, La Sсala, publishes recordings of performances on its Youtube channel.
The Bavarian Opera in Munich will be closed for most of April, but during this period it offers connoisseurs free access to recordings of performances.
The Vienna Opera also broadcasts free of charge.
Two students from the University of Michigan have created a resource that lists all music events online. Here you will find not only orchestral concerts, but also performances of country musicians, artists performing classical works on unusual instruments.
The site of the Mariinsky Theater in the northern capital offers viewers who are temporarily unable to get to the theater a wide range of recordings of performances and concerts held at the Mariinsky.
If you couldn't buy tickets to the Bolshoi Theater, now the mecca of our art will acquaint everyone with the pearls of the repertoire for free.
The famous pianist Denis Matsuev together with the Moscow Philharmonic decided to launch a series of online concerts. The schedule and broadcast should be monitored on the website.
Theater "New Opera" also decided not to pause in concerts and switched to the streaming mode. You can see and hear the concerts of the theater soloists by following the link.
"Sovremennik" is fighting the coronavirus with the project "Doctor Chekhov": every day at 19:00, actors read Chekhov's works. You can see it on Instagram.
Quarantine was the start for another interesting project: in the evenings on Instagram, famous Russian actors - Anatoly Bely, Irina Starshenbaum, Taisiya Vilkova and others - read fairy tales. Schedule and entries here.
And, of course, you cannot do without the Kultura.rf portal: this is a treasure trove where 2,500 performances of the Soviet era are collected. Rock opera "Juno and Avos", Leonid Filatov's solo performance "About Fedot the archer, a dashing fellow", "Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro" by the Theater of Satire with Andrei Mironov and many other masterpieces.
We make a virtual tour of the Hermitage here, and whoever wants to go further away - welcome to the Louvre.
