Five days ago, the largest opera company by budget in the United States released a statement to the press that all rehearsals and performances through the end of the month would be cancelled due to Coronavirus.
Multiple soloists currently engaged at the Met confirm they found out about their lost work via a Tweet. – Middle Class Artist
Tag: 03.17.20
How COVID-19 Is Changing Podcasting
“Shows are drastically scaling down their studio time, production teams are increasingly shifting to remote workflows, public radio stations are postponing their pledge drives, and independents are bracing for hits to their business models. Here, a look at how the podcast world is handling the crisis.” – Vulture
How Public TV And LA Schools Quickly Got An At-Home School Learning Program Up And Running
LAUSD curriculum specialists and PBS SoCal/KCET were in a programming war room, mapping out priorities by grade, and identifying shows inside the TV stations’ library that might match up. Also, San Francisco PBS station KQED was brought in, and took the lead in developing an online service to match the broadcast service being developed in Los Angeles. – Variety
Take In A Museum – Ten Museums That Offer Cool Virtual Tours
These virtual tours take you right inside some of the world’s most iconic institutions. Been putting off that trip to Amsterdam to explore the Van Gogh Museum? Here’s your chance to take it all in. Dreaming of a trip to Paris that includes taking in the Louvre? You can do that, too. – Yahoo!
Italy’s Dancers, Stuck At Home, Are Taking Class Via App
Marina Harss talks to four dancers from across the country about how they’re staying in shape and in touch despite being more or less trapped in their houses. – The New York Times
An Upside Of Italy’s Lockdown: You Can Now See Fish And Waterfowl In Venice’s Canals
Venetians are posting photos to the Facebook group Venezia Pulita (Clean Venice), saying that they’ve never seen the water in the canals so clear. It’s not that they’re suddenly far less polluted than before, says the mayor’s office: the lack of boat traffic means that no sediment is getting stirred up from the bottom. – CNN
An Honor Roll Of North American Opera Companies And Vocal Ensembles Who Are Paying Musicians Despite The Cancellations
There are a lot of small regional organizations on this list who are stepping up despite finances that are precarious even in good times, but the only big-name company there is Houston Grand Opera. And though Lincoln Center Theater is included (for its now-cancelled production of the new Ricky Ian Gordon-Lynn Nottage opera Intimate Apparel), the Metropolitan Opera is definitely not. (Across the Atlantic, English National Opera will honor at least one month of contracts.) – The Middle-Class Artist
Actor Lyle Waggoner, Known For ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ And ‘Wonder Woman’, Dead At 84
In addition to being the handsome announcer and sketch actor on Burnett’s show and the foil to Lynda Carter’s superheroine, he was the first-ever centerfold for Playgirl magazine and, later in life, launched a successful business renting custom trailers for actors to retreat to during movie and TV shoots. – Yahoo! (AP)
For The American Shakespeare Center, COVID Could Be An Existential Threat. Here’s How The Company’s Holding It Together
The replica Elizabethan theatre in the Shenandoah Valley normally thrives, in the usual hand-to-mouth way, with a mix of school groups and out-of-town visitors. Now both are gone indefinitely. Peter Marks traveled to Staunton, Va. to see how the ASC is coping. – The Washington Post
A Guide To Concerts And Operas To Stream During The COVID Quarantine
Of the dozen or more such articles that we’ve seen so far, this one from David Patrick Stearns is our favorite so far — not only because it offers a lot of options, but also because of his sense of humor and compassion. – WQXR (New York City)