(Credit: Wilfried Hösl)

The Bayerische Staatsoper has canceled all the rehearsals and performances until at least Nov. 12, 2021, due to a COVID-19 outbreak within the company, said the Intendant Serge Dorny.

Dorny took to social media to state that all the activities during that period must be canceled in order to ensure that the infection chain is interrupted and to prevent any further spread of COVID-19.

Among the canceled performances are Bizet’s “Carmen” on Nov. 10 with Varduhi Abrahamyan, Dmytro Popov and Alexander Vinogradov, and the whole run of Braunfels’ “Die Vögel” between Nov. 12 and Nov. 18 that was supposed to star Caroline Wettergreen, Wolfgang Koch and Günter Papendell.

Germany is undergoing a fierce COVID-19 wave caused by the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus. The daily number of infections reached 37,000 nationally, and health officials have warned that the country is facing bed shortages in ICU’s.