26 March 2020

#StayHome programme tip by Fashion.at: ORF.at/kulturjetzt provides a collection of online streams of opera, music concerts,...

The Austrian public service broadcaster ORF has launched the new channel orf.at/kulturjetzt in response to the ban on events due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. Kulturjetzt (translated 'Culture Now') provides an entertaining culture programme with focus on activities of Austrian institutions, organisations and artists. Part of the currently available programme is for example content for video streaming such as Beethoven's only opera 'Fidelio' from the stage of Theater an der Wien under the direction of Hollywood actor Christoph Waltz or concerts by young Austrian musicians from the FM4 Stay At Home Sessions (FM4 is the broadcaster's English/German language radio station).

Image: Opera singer Nicole Chevalier as Leonore in 'Fidelio', opera by Ludwig van Beethoven, directed by Christoph Waltz, on the stage designed by American-German architecture office Barkow Leibinger at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria; premiere postponed from 16 March, theatre to 20 March, online and TV. Photo by © photographer Monika Rittershaus.