Even as the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden and other opera houses around the world remain shuttered from Covid-19, classical music's least socially distant genre has taken fresh root in new media and alternative pandemic-resistant venues. Verdi in a sports arena? Wagner in a parking garage? Mozart in a drive-in cinema? And most universally, with the growing number of streaming services, a steady diet of nightly screenings in our own living rooms. 
 

Operatic entrepreneurs Neal Goren (Catapult Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera) Julia Noulin-Mérat (Guerilla Opera, More than Musical, Opera Columbus) and our very own Rumiko Hasegawa (More than Musical) share the challenges and opportunities confronting opera in the past year. Are video and film merely a placeholder for the pandemic, or a wave of the future. From travel restrictions to new staging protocols, these impresarios speak with arts critic Ken Smith (Financial Times, Opera magazine) about how much "Covid esthetics" will shape the future of the art form.

Webcast (Facebook or YouTube) live only at
https://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/new-stage-opera-after-covid 

Monday, 1 March 2021

9:00 pm (HKT), 8:00am (EST)