A map of Europe without music
mainMike Gibb, founder of Operabase, has constructed a map of the continent with details of opera and theatre closures.
You can access the full scale here.
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Why aren’t people rebelling against all this claptrap?
In Italy I can’t even get a bloody cappuccino.
Well, Simon, let me think… Perhaps because over 1400 people have died in Italy? really sorry you have to forego your cappuccino, I am sure here in Italy we got our priorities wrong…
We have to forgo things because of the bloody stupid Italian government.
How does it feel to drink a cappuccino when next to you people are dying? You should go back to your country where your darwinistic wise fuehrer is going to implement a huge experiment which will result in thousands of deaths! I guess you are young and feel safe. But maybe this will change if your wonderful health system will eventually collapse.
Rather why is mankind not taking similar immediate action when it comes to climate change or the biodiversity crisis?
I am not saying these corona precautions are unacceptable.
But things are getting out of proportion!
Let ’em eat cake!!
Propaganda
What governments are worried about is not the number of deaths, bad as they might be, but that health services could be totally swamped. Italy has one of the best equipped health services in the world and are barely coping.
Ich was referring to the “green” nation.
I changed the label to ‘no restrictions’ rather than the misleading ‘clear’
But the opera houses and theatres are closed. The governments “suggestion” was understood as forcing them to close.
Brits with their heads in the sand yet again
Will that keep them safe from Covid-19? I thought the climate emergency was going to kill us all; turns out the old-fashioned pandemic is more than capable of that – which any person with just a quarter of a human brain already knew.
I’ll quote Basil Fawlty: “Have you ever heard of the Bubonic Plague”?
Portugal doesn’t count?
We are also in a lockout situation with all the main theatres closed and concerts postponed or even cancelled.
Does any of you acknowledge our existence and the problems we TOO are facing?
Totally agree, by genuine coincidence am writing this listening to a CD of Portuguese music from the baroque to the present. Almeida is a very fine composer.
“Portugal doesn’t count?”
Ugh. It clearly states: “NO INFO”. There you go:
https://i.imgur.com/EU0CF9s.jpg
(I thought about coloring Belarus instead of Portugal.)
Wow, tough crowd!
I could not find any info on a national-level response for Portugal. There was nothing at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Portugal
I have now found “− Adiar ou cancelar todos os eventos que impliquem ou possam implicar a concentração, em espaço fechado, de mais de 1.000 pessoas.” under https://covid19.min-saude.pt/ which I will add to the page.
If you have any good source of info, please let me know
You think Wikipedia is a good reliable source? Really?
Switzerland is down to 100 too, which means that all majors theatres are now closed.
And Spain? It is not Europe? It has been published everywhere that it is closed for all kind if concert or theatrical show
Is it still the BBC’s fault for not reporting cultural closures?
Who are these people with No Information?
And what does the UK cultural sector think it is playing at?
FCS, the PUBS in Ireland have been ordered to shut for the rest of the month.
Who comes up with these dates? March 31st, April 1st.
Anyone who believes this will be over in two weeks is delusional .
Generally these will be the result of a government saying we need extraordinary powers for a period of ‘x’ days/weeks
(or ‘until Easter’). Renewable.
There would naturally be a mass of resistence to any government asking for emergency powers without any end date
No, it means that there will be a review every few weeks. Around the end of March, it will be “closed to the 15th April” etc. Nothing will reopen before late May/June at the earliest.
The map only covered the national responses so, for instance, Spain: though the regions most affected (Madrid and near the France-Spain border) might have been cancelling, there was no national response until tonight’s lockdown at midnight.
There wll be a much fuller, more detailed page with updated map and many more details going up in a few hours ..
The map was updated last night
Graphic: http://opus2.org/news/corona_20200316.jpg
Text: http://opus2.org/news/
It’s not true info. We are performing here in Munich opera – tomorrow is our first live stream. Also we are having rehearsals and another stream of Schwanensee on 21st.
After we’ll be having rehearsals for “Maria Callas” and so on.
So we are not working as before but we do work and perform (without a public).
As far as I know, every venue in Germany is closed. It should be red on the map.
Britain should probably be cancelling concerts also. There are many covid cases there.
Even during WW2 Germany could still manage orchestral concerts!! All this panic reminds me of this: eerily similar!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUsyXQ8Wrs
Headline in The Guardian:
UK coronavirus crisis ‘to last until spring 2021 and could see 7.9m hospitalised’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised
Huh? This is extremely unlikely.
Guess they can’t call England Das Land Ohne Musik anymore…
With events moving so rapidly, this is the sort of map that’s out of date the moment it’s published.