﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Cision News</title><link>https://news.cision.com</link><description>Cision is the leading global provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services. With over 40 locations throughout the world, Cision provides the insight, expertise and intelligence that improve performance and build reputations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:48:33 GMT</pubDate><image><title>Cision News</title><width>146</width><height>60</height><link>https://news.cision.com</link><url>https://news.cision.com/Content/img/news-logo.png</url></image><item><title>Online community opera Free Will is ready for its premiere on stage and online</title><link>http://news.cision.com/opera-by-you/r/online-community-opera-free-will-is-ready-for-its-premiere-on-stage-and-online,c9285179</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1075804</guid><description><![CDATA[Free Will – the world’s first opera produced by an online community – will premiere on the 21st of July 2012 in Savonlinna, Finland. Hundreds of people all over the world have participated in making an opera. Free Will’s world premiere is live streamed from hs.fi on Saturday 21st July 2012 at 7pm.
Opera By You online community has helped to write the libretto, compose the music and design the sets and costumes – from beginning to end. The Savonlinna Opera Festival has placed world-class soloists, a chorus of 80, a symphony orchestra and its entire production machinery at the community’s]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Live stream from crowdsourcing opera rehearsals</title><link>http://news.cision.com/opera-by-you/r/live-stream-from-crowdsourcing-opera-rehearsals,c9279779</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision514136</guid><description><![CDATA[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 6.7. 10am–2pm and 6pm–9pm
Sat 7.7. 10am–3pm 

Week 28
Mon 9.7. 10am–2pm and 6pm–9pm 
Tue 10.7. 10am–2pm and 6pm–9pm 
Wed 11.7. 10am–2pm and 6pm–9pm 
Thu 12.7. 10am–2pm]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Opera by You seminar explores crowdsourcing in culture production</title><link>http://news.cision.com/opera-by-you/r/opera-by-you-seminar-explores-crowdsourcing-in-culture-production,c9271351</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision505788</guid><description><![CDATA[Public seminar "Crowdsourcing in Culture Production, Case by Opera by You" deals with Finnish Savonlinna Opera Festival’s crowdsourcing opera production. Speaking at the seminar are Rovio’s Marketing Director Peter Vesterbacka and Pia Erkinheimo, Nokia’s Head of Crowdsourcing, among others.
Free Will opera – produced by the Opera by You online community – will premiere on the 21st of July 2012 in Savonlinna, Finland. Crowdsourcing in Culture Production seminar takes place on the same day. The purpose of the seminar is to explore crowdsourcing as a resource for business and the Opera by You]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crowdsourcing opera Opera By You awards active community members</title><link>http://news.cision.com/opera-by-you/r/crowdsourcing-opera-opera-by-you-awards-active-community-members,c9246162</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision479917</guid><description><![CDATA[Members that have been most active in creating Free Will community opera have been awarded with travel packages to the Savonlinna Opera Festival and world premiere of Free Will on 21st July 2012. Now all Opera By You community members have an opportunity to reach for Jorma Ollila Innovation Award.
During the crowdsourcing project, which has been going on almost two years, over 400 members from around the world have taken part in creating the community opera and thousands of people are following the progress. Now five lucky members have won an all-inclusive travel package to the premiere of]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Online community chose costumes for opera stars</title><link>http://news.cision.com/opera-by-you/r/online-community-chose-costumes-for-opera-stars,c9206642</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision438731</guid><description><![CDATA[Costumes for stars of the Free Will opera that utilizes crowdsourcing were chosen on community election. Oscar Wilde, Secretary-General of the United Nations, wears a leather jacket, and Jeanne d’Arc, President of IMF, performs in pinstripe.
Free Will is the first opera to utilize the creative power of the virtual communities. Community members were able to send their ideas and sketches for the costumes of the characters using the Wreckamovie platform. The operatives of the project chose the best ones for the final election. Besides Wilde and d’Arc, also Mozart and Lucifer got new clothes in]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Create visual image and slogan for Opera Free Will</title><link>http://news.cision.com/opera-by-you/r/create-visual-image-and-slogan-for-opera-free-will,c9206226</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision438265</guid><description><![CDATA[Next task on community opera project Opera By You is to create marketing materials for the opera. Visual image in the form of a poster and a slogan to catch the idea of the opera Free Will are now in demand.
Free Will is the first opera in the world that utilizes crowdsourcing and is totally created by an online community. Community has already chosen the script and is in command of composing the music for the opera. It has also designed the staging and the costume for the characters. Now there is a new challenge for the community: they need to invent a slogan and create a visual image of]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vote a staging for opera</title><link>http://news.cision.com/opera-by-you/r/vote-a-staging-for-opera,c9151930</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision381581</guid><description><![CDATA[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 will be decided. There are two options which have been issued by the thoughts and ideas of the online community, Laine tells.

Scenes take place in market square and political]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:48:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Online community deals with current issues using black humor</title><link>http://news.cision.com/opera-by-you/r/online-community-deals-with-current-issues-using-black-humor,c9138130</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision361498</guid><description><![CDATA[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 world have participated in work and the project has thousands of followers. Iida Hämeen-Anttila who studies dramaturgy at the Theater Academy Helsinki works as a dramaturge of the]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:27:03 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>