Audience-free performances

[ARBurton]

As the world is gripped by the virus, or by panic, (or a combination of both perhaps?) one reads of performances going ahead without audiences, harking back to those Bayreuth videos filmed without audiences in the 1980s/1990s. Last night German tv broadcast Barenboim`s new Berlin Carmen - curtain-calls being taken to an empty hall looked really rather surreal...! And the Swedish Opera streamed a Walkure yesterday pm/evening also without an audience - the stream appears to be available here:-

https://www.operanplay.se/en/performances/die-walkure

[Once Was 4]

As the world is gripped by the virus, or by panic, (or a combination of both perhaps?) one reads of performances going ahead without audiences, harking back to those Bayreuth videos filmed without audiences in the 1980s/1990s. Last night German tv broadcast Barenboim`s new Berlin Carmen - curtain-calls being taken to an empty hall looked really rather surreal...! And the Swedish Opera streamed a Walkure yesterday pm/evening also without an audience - the stream appears to be available here:-
https://www.operanplay.se/en/performances/die-walkure

Does anybody of my generation remember when this was the norm with the BBC's regional orchestras? I can remember at least one (a dreadful performance of Vaughan-Williams 5th Symphony) that was literally 'pulled' half way through and the continuity announcer openly said that "it was not up to our usual standard!"

Another time a horn player split some notes and the performance stopped, there was some German invective - presumably from the 'stick' - and the performance re-started.

But my favourite: one of my teachers played in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (with our late friend 'hornspieler' Donald Froud who remembered the occasion in a private email) who were doing a live, no audience, broadcast from the Winter Gardens. It was Sibelius 5: they played the first of those final chords, Charles Groves prepared the beat for the next one, the wind players breathed rhythmically, the string players prepared their strokes, the timpanist his stroke when the announcer chipped in with "and that was the Symphony No 5 by Sibelius".

[DracoM]

Why can football not be played behind closed doors with HUGE radio / TV etc covering it? Just do not follow why it's so outside the thought process?

[LMcD]

Why can football not be played behind closed doors with HUGE radio / TV etc covering it? Just do not follow why it's so outside the thought process?

Ipswich Town are reportedly planning a live stream of home games if matches resume behind closed doors - or should that be closed gates?

[teamsaint]

Why can football not be played behind closed doors with HUGE radio / TV etc covering it? Just do not follow why it's so outside the thought process?

Lower division clubs need the gate money. And the tipping point, rightly or wrongly, seems to have been those within the game testing positive.

The PL really needs to act as banker of last resort , and help the game ( principally outside the PL) through this.

[LHC]

Why can football not be played behind closed doors with HUGE radio / TV etc covering it? Just do not follow why it's so outside the thought process?

The concern is that people will congregate in pubs to watch the streamed/televised games, which actually presents a greater risk than being at an outside ground.

[DracoM]

OK, so do it only on radio...........??

[gradus]

Ipswich Town are reportedly planning a live stream of home games if matches resume behind closed doors - or should that be closed gates?

Crikey I'd have thought that they'd welcome a break the way the seasons going.

[LMcD]

Crikey I'd have thought that they'd welcome a break the way the seasons going.

Nicholas Parsons would probably have said that they're in a very strong 10th place.

[bluestateprommer]

The Fabulous Philadelphians and YNS played to an empty Verizon Hall on March 12, the start of their planned LvB Symphony cycle, just before the boom came down on gatherings of >1K people in Philly:

https://www.philorch.org/performances/special-performances/live-stream/

Composer Iman Habibi was there to hear the world premiere of his new work, along with freelance critic David Patrick Stearns writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer:

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-covid-19-philadelphia-orchestra-plays-to-empty-hall-20200313.html

[Bryn]

The Fabulous Philadelphians and YNS played to an empty Verizon Hall on March 12, the start of their planned LvB Symphony cycle, just before the boom came down on gatherings of >1K people in Philly:

https://www.philorch.org/performances/special-performances/live-stream/

Composer Iman Habibi was there to hear the world premiere of his new work, along with freelance critic David Patrick Stearns writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer:

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coro...-20200313.html

Many thanks for that, bsp. Now streaming.