music news (June 12): Wagner's Rheingold opera on parking deck, sold out; virtual performances; Musicians hit hard by festival cancellations in southern Africa

* opera: Wagner's Rheingold on parking deck, sold out
* Musicians hit hard by festival cancellations in southern Africa
* Musicians perform a virtual gala in COVID-19 lockdown
* singer played ticketed livestreams from an (almost) empty church

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Musicians hit hard by festival cancellations in southern Africa

"the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe, says it recently submitted a list of 1,500 performing and non-performing artists to the government so that they can access “immediate social assistance”.
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Earlier this month a group of NGOs came together to donate food parcels to more than 1,000 musicians in Limpopo province, in the north of the country."

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Musicians perform a virtual gala in COVID-19 lockdown

"Yannick Nezet-Seguin, leader of the Metropolitan Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra used his time in isolation
to organise his musicians and singers to stage a touching artistic triumph, online, ... that touched thousands."

see video here

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The "Deutsche Oper" in Berlin makes 5 events of Wagner's Rheingold on a parking deck

in 12 mins all 1000 tickets were sold

"Die Deutsche Oper in Berlin führt fünf Vorstellungen des von Richard Wagner komponierten Stücks „Rheingold“ auf ihrem Parkdeck auf.
In nur 12 Minuten waren alle insgesamt 1000 Tickets weg."

( link )

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"The singer played ticketed livestreams from an (almost) empty church to brighten up lockdown.

The event is ticketed at £12 or $12 a stream, and while her manager won’t give me exact numbers, he says more than 6,000 have been sold.
with two-metre social distancing, could only accommodate 84 of its usual 900 capacity."

'I loved the weirdness' – can Laura Marling's crowdless gig rescue live music?


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see also:
music news (June 9-10): musicians / venues and their Corona struggle, lastfm playlists, Dalai Lama album, birthday (Anoushka Shankar), RIP (Pau Donés, Bushwick Bill)