OPERA FOR THE MASSES: Opera singer Andrea Bocelli (right) and German singer Diana Dam Rau performing in Piazza Duomo. Internet users throughout the world will be able to watch the simulcast and future live transmissions from the stages of 15 participating European opera companies in 12 countries.
La Traviata, Verdi's opera about the doomed love of a courtesan and a young man, will be streamed live and free of charge worldwide from the stage of Madrid's Teatro Real, opening an EU-backed programme intended to make opera more accessible.
The Opera Platform (www.theoperaplatform.eu) is a three-year project with an overall budget of almost €4mil (RM16.14mil), of which about half comes from the European Union's cultural budget, a press statement said.
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