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Paris Opera Singers go Digital After Coronavirus Restrictions Keep Theatres Closed
Violinist Yoan Brakha, Director Simon Valastro and Pianist Felix Ramos, members of the Opera de Paris Academy rehearse in masks at the Bastille Opera in Paris.
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The singers decided to film their performance of works by a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and 18th century French composers Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Andre Gretry and offer it on a new video-on-demand portal launched last week by the Opera de Paris.
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Just five days before they were due to perform before a live audience for the first time in almost two months, the singers of the Paris Opera learned they could not re-open before January as France s coronavirus cases remained stubbornly high.
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PARIS Just five days before they were due to perform before a live audience for the first time in almost two months, the singers of the Paris Opera learned they could not re-open before January as France’s coronavirus cases remained stubbornly high.
So they decided to film their performance of works by a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and 18th century French composers Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Andre Gretry and offer it on a new video-on-demand portal launched last week by the Opera de Paris, which runs the Garnier and the Bastille opera venues.
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