Along with Live-stream Local Library programs, we’re scouting for programs to keep you inspired during stay-at-home times. Example: how about a free livestream from the Vienna State Opera?

Vienna State Opera is now opening its livestream archives, so that music lovers all over the world will still be able to enjoy opera and ballet. Starting Sunday, March 15 2020, Wiener Staatsoper will broadcast recordings of previous opera and ballet performances daily, free of charge.

After registration at www.staatsoperlive.com the subscription can be booked free of charge until further notice. 

At your home, enjoy top-class performances with renowned singers and great conductors in different casts. The programme includes the complete Ring tetralogy under the baton of Adam Fischer, Simon Rattle and Axel Kober with Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan/Wanderer), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Evelyn Herlitzius and Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde); two evenings of Falstaff under James Conlon and Zubin Mehta with Carlos Álvarez and Ambrogio Maestri in the title role, Simon Keenlyside and Ludovic Tézier as Ford; three different casts in Tosca performances, Tri Sestri, Roméo et Juliette with Juan Diego Flórez and Aida Garifullina in the title roles, the anniversary production of Die Frau ohne Schatten under Christian Thielemann with Stephen Gould (Kaiser), Camilla Nylund (Kaiserin), Wolfgang Koch (Barak), Nina Stemme (Färberin) and Evelyn Herlitzius (Amme) as well as the ballet Peer Gynt.