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Live stream from crowdsourcing opera rehearsals

Savonlinna Opera Festival’s crowdsourcing opera Free Will’s world premiere is on 21st July 2012. Rehearsals can be followed online via live stream.
Link to rehearsals live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/opera-by-you-free-will. Site has also video recordings from the previous rehersals.
Rehearsal schedule:
(gmt +2, Finnish time)
Week 27
Mon 2.7. 10am–3pm
Tue 3.7. 5pm–9pm
Thu 5.7. 10am–2pm and 6pm–9pm
Fri...
 

Vote a staging for opera

It is time to decide how the staging of the Free Will opera looks like.
Savonlinna Opera Festival launched Opera By You project in May 2010. In the project anyone can contribute to the creation of an opera. Hundreds of people around the world have participated in work and the project has thousands of followers. Samuli Laine works as a visual coordinator in the project.

- Now the opera’s final visual appearence...

Online community deals with current issues using black humor

The first part of the world’s first online community opera project is now ready. The libretto has been completed. Opera By You project started a year ago and so far approximately 400 people around the world has participated in making of the opera.
Savonlinna Opera Festival launched Opera By You project in May 2010. In the project anyone can contribute to the creation of an opera. Hundreds of people around the...