EU adds 2 million for Operavision
NewsThe European Union today granted 2 million Euros to our partners OperaVision to continue streaming one opera a week from companies all over Europe, some of them little known.
OperaVision allows viewers to watch performances streamed live from the theatre and on demand for several months thereafter. The platform offers a variety of shows – including opera, operetta, musical theatre, dance, ballet and concerts – all for free, live and on demand. OperaVision offers new streams on a weekly basis, making up a balanced online season of the best loved titles alongside world premieres and new discoveries.
Among the less well-known titles currently available on OperaVision is Lviv National Opera’s production of When the Fern Blooms, an opera-ballet based on Gogol stories by Yevhen Stankovych, rescued 40 years after being banned by Soviet authorities.
Wonderful. Thank you, Europe.
Indeed. Can you imagine something like this happening in the US?
What exactly are you thanking Europe for?
The opera houses generally provide content to OperaVision free of charge; OV merely puts it online, occasionally contributing a very modest thousand euros or so to the cost of adding subtitles.
In other words, all this could be put on YouTube (thanks, USA!) by the opera houses directly, since they’ve paid the costs of staging and filming the operas already; OV rarely adds anything to that.
“OV rarely adds anything”
Nothing, apart from simple, clear, coordinated presentation. Live streams, on-demand viewing choice of a dozen and a half operas (in normal times), ballet, operetta (with date, venue, cast & crew data, synopsis), as well as intro to opera for newcomers, films & activities aimed at kids, features on emerging artists, backstage activities (costumes, scenery, staging), orchestras & instruments, making-ofs, interviews.
“…all this could be put on YouTube”
True. But OV won’t rub your nose in “not available in your region”.
Oh, and no ads. No user comments. No cat videos.