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The Royal Opera House Covent Garden has announced that it will stream a specially recorded film which will feature the opera house’s young artists and Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano. The film will be broadcast on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. GMT.

“Tony and the Young Artists” brings together Pappano and members of its Jette Parker Young Artists Program. The film will spotlight mezzo-soprano Stephanie Wake-Edwards, soprano Alexandra Lowe and tenor Filipe Manu. The young singers will perform arias and duets from operas such as Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” and Verdi’s “Falstaff,” as well as songs by Weill and Bernstein.

“With restrictions continuing to impact our daily lives, we are delighted to be able to provide our audiences with a much-needed operatic escape. As The Royal Opera company, we are proud to invite audiences to experience this wonderful evening of uplifting music and song, reuniting Tony Pappano with our extraordinary and hugely talented roster of Jette Parker Young Artists,” said Director of Opera Oliver Mears.

British opera houses have been closed since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. England is currently under a strict and hard lockdown as authorities are trying to curb the spread of novel B 1.1.7. variant of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.