(Credit: Landestheater Linz official website) The Austrian government will start to gradually lift full lockdown measures imposed in November 2020 due to the surge of COVID-19 cases experienced throughout the country. The current restrictions have been set to last until Dec. 6, 2020. However, theaters and opera houses are not going to be the first to reopen, according to Austrian {…}
(Credit: Gunnar Geller) Komische Oper Berlin has announced that it has officially canceled all performances until Dec. 22, 2020. However, according to a statement on the company’s official website, it is very unlikely that performances will resume until February 2021. Komische Oper Berlin has brought such an estimate based on extensive talks with Berlin’s Senator for Culture and Europe Dr. {…}
(Credit: Jan Windszus Photography) Berlin’s Senator for Culture and Europe Dr. Klaus Lederer has stated in an interview for rbb24.de that Berlin’s cultural institutions will remain closed at least until mid-January 2021. “I think that we will need even more time,” added Dr. Lederer. Berlin’s Senator came to this conclusion after extensive talks with General Managers and Representatives of the {…}
(Credit: Staatsoper Stuttgart official website) The Staatsoper Stuttgart has announced that it will cancel all performances until Jan. 31, 2021. Following a joint decision by the German federal government and the Prime Ministers of the federal states, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts has concluded that the uncertain duration of the existing partial lockdown poses too great a {…}
(Credit: Jan Windszus Photography) According to sources from Deutsche Welle and Der Spiegel, the German federal government and Prime Ministers of German federal states (Bund und Länder) have agreed to extend the partial lockdown until Dec. 20 2020 at least, with new drastic measures aimed to further curb the second wave of COVID-19 in Germany. Per the draft obtained by {…}
(Credit: Christian Thür) The Austrian government has decided to implement a second lockdown in a bid to stop the fast spreading second wave of COVID-19. Per sources at oe24, opera houses, theatres, and concert halls will be closed for the period of four weeks, starting Tuesday, Nov. 3 2020. Sporting events will only be allowed without public. Private contact sports will {…}
(Credit: Lonely Planet) French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will go into lockdown starting Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. The French President announced that “whatever we do, we will have 9,000 patients in the ICU by mid-November.” “We must protect the economy, but human lives are the most important,” added the French President. “Therefore, I decided that it was necessary {…}
(Credit: Visit Berlin official website) The German government has announced new restrictions due to the rise in COVID-19 cases. Per sources from the German newspaper Die Welt, the German government has reached an agreement with Prime Ministers of German 16 federal states to implement new drastic COVID-19 measures, which include the closure of opera houses, theaters, and concert halls. The {…}
(Credit: Opernhaus Zürich official website) The Swiss government has announced a set of new strict measures that will also affect cultural institutions, including the opera houses and concert halls. Events with more than 50 people will be prohibited, as well as sporting and cultural leisure activities with more than 15 spectators. The Swiss government has also shut down disco clubs {…}
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced a set of drastic COVID-19 measures, which will include closures of opera houses, theatres and concert halls until Nov. 24, 2020. Per the decree, “performances in the theatres, concert halls, cinemas and other spaces, including the outdoor ones, are suspended.” The Italian Prime Minister unveiled a full set of measures which also include {…}
(Credit: Visit Brussels website) Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo announced new COVID-19 restriction measures in Belgium that limit the number of spectators in theatres and concert halls to a maximum of 200 persons, among other measures. “The coronavirus numbers keep going up,” said De Croo. “Nine out of ten provinces are at alarm level four, and the last province, {…}