(Credit: Christian Thür) The Austrian government will declare a fresh lockdown in the country right after Christmas. The lockdown will be much tougher than the current one and will last until Jan. 18, 2021. Per the official news APA agency sources, all non-essential shops will have to shut down. Restaurants, bars, cinemas, theaters, concert halls, and opera houses will remain {…}
Credit: Bern.com The Swiss COVID-19 task force has demanded urgent action after ‘insufficient” measures taken by the Swiss Federal Council on Dec. 11 2020. “There is a clear significant rise in cases,” Patrick Mathys, head of the crisis management at the Federal Office of Public Health, told reporters on Dec. 15. “We need effective measures to reduce the pressure on {…}
(Credit: Kirsten Nijhof / Opera Online website / Staatstheater Hannover official website) Oper Leipzig has announced that it will shut down until at least the end of February 2021. The company has joined a growing number of German opera houses and concert halls that have closed until February or March 2021. In the meantime, Oper Köln and Staatstheater Hannover have {…}
Credit: Zürich Tourismus website The famed Zürich’s concert hall, Tonhalle Zürich has announced that it will shut down until the end of February 2021. Major theaters and opera houses in Switzerland have already closed until at least the end of January 2021, following new measures brought by the Swiss Federal Council. Five Swiss top doctors warned Swiss Health Minister Alain {…}
(Credit: Bern.com) The directors of five of Switzerland’s largest hospitals have asked Health Minister Alain Berset to impose much more stringent measures in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country. Heads of the university hospitals in Zürich, Bern, Basel, Lausanne, and Geneva said that the second pandemic wave was forcing them to postpone operations for patients with {…}
(Credit: Mannheim.de / Theater Dortmund official website) Nationaltheater Mannheim has announced that it will shut down until the end of January 2021. “After the federal and state governments decided to extend the lockdown to January 10, 2021, the city of Mannheim and the Mannheim National Theater have agreed to cease performances until January 31, 2021,” says the statement on the {…}
(Credit: Deutsche Oper am Rhein official website) Famed Russian baritone Boris Statsenko has posted on his Facebook account that he is in the hospital, being treated for a heavy form of COVID-19. “I am positive for COVID-19, and my lungs have suffered 50% damage,” wrote Statsenko on his social media account. Statsenko has appeared on many international operatic stages, including {…}
Credit: © visitBerlin / Dagmar Schwelle German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that the country will enter a next phase of the lockdown, bringing more rigorous measures in a bid to curb the exponential spread of COVID-19. Following the meeting with Prime Ministers of 16 German federal states, Chancellor Merkel said that there was an urgent need to take action. {…}
(Credit: Basel.com) Update: Swiss Federal Council allowed cultural events with up to 5 people. The Swiss Federal Council has decided to take action and impose nationwide COVID-19 restrictions. The new measures would start on Saturday, Dec. 12, and lasts until at least Jan. 20, 2021. The council has observed that in recent days, several cantons have taken or announced new {…}
(Credit: Opéra de Paris official website) va France has postponed the reopening of cultural venues, including theaters, concert halls and opera houses, said French Prime Minister Jean Castex. The reopening of cultural venues planned for Dec. 15, 2020 has been postponed for three weeks, the Prime Minister announced on Thursday, Dec 10. The curfew, which will be reinstated on Dec. {…}
(Credit: Wilfried Hoesl) The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced that it has canceled all performances until Jan. 31, 2021, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic concerns. The opera house said in a statement that performances “have been canceled in coordination with the responsible Ministry of the federal state of Bavaria. The decision has also affected all state theaters in Bavaria.” The {…}