During the global coronavirus pandemic, we can find various online cultural entertainment offers who have come to offer themselves free of charge. This as a way to help in the difficult situation that is being experienced currently, granting entertainment to people that are forced to stay in their homes in various parts of the world. We wanted to share some of the most interesting offers currently available online, which you're sure to enjoy.
- The works of the Metropolitan Opera of New York:
The New York Metropolitan Opera concluded with Eugene Onegin what has been its first week of a series operas available for free Daily on the Internet. The Met, as it is known worldwide, canceled the remainder of its 2019-20 season, which was to have ended on May 9, due to the coronavirus pandemic, including all live performances and Live HD broadcasts.
Every night at At 5:30 p.m. an opera will be launched new one that will be available until 4:30 p.m. the following day. This is complete blockbuster productions from the Live HD series, which cover a period of 14 years of broadcasts, led by the greatest opera singers from around the world.
In the case of Eugene Onegin the filming was done on February 24, 2007, with the orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. The leading roles were played by American soprano Renée Fleming (Tatiana), Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Eugene Onegin), and tenor Ramón Vargas (the poet Vladimir Lensky, her best friend).
The broadcast opens with a great introduction by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov who expresses that Eugene Onegin occupies a unique place in the musical legacy of the Russian nation."This astonishing opera by Tchaikovsky is based on a beloved novel written in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Together, the novel and the opera represent Russian culture at its highest."
- Movistar Lite
Movistar Lite is giving away its channels for a month due to the coronavirus. Sky and YouTube Premium also offer a free month.
- British Film Institute
The British Film Institute opened its free catalog, where you can watch countless movies online completely free of charge
- Prado Museum
In Spain the Prado Museum has begun the #PradoContigo initiative due to the COVID-19 quarantine situation. With it, anyone visiting the museum's website will have access to visits virtuallyThe project, which launched last week, has already amassed more than half a million users and has been a huge success.
- Vatican Museums
In Italy, the Vatican museums receive more than six million visits per yearTo offer a digital experience, the museum can be tour virtually and thus observe the enormous murals and rooms such as the Sistine Chapel and its mural, "The Last Judgment by Michelangelo."
- Louvre Museum
Would you like to Tour the Louvre from your home and see the Mona Lisa?, now you can. You can see it, along with thousands of other paintings and its collection of Egyptian antiquities, on guided tours, videos, and 360-degree views, without the crowds on the museum's website. We invite you to delve into the history and mysteries of such a famous painting.
- Google Art & Culture
Google Arts & Culture, or Google Art Project, is a project that was born in 2011 and It has an archive of more than a thousand museums, such as the Tate Britain in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Its website is divided into several sections, among which the most notable are articles, the street view where you can see the detail various constructions around the world and Art Zoom, where you can observe, in high definition, curious details of paintings that might go completely unnoticed during a physical visit. One of the most interesting tours offered by Google Art is that of the beautiful Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
- Original YouTube content
In the midst of the isolation that is being experienced around the world, YouTube decided to put some of its original content with free access. These are music documentaries, specials with personalities such as Michelle Obama and many others.
Youtube users will be able to watch the first chapter of 'Creators for Change with Michelle Obama', where Liza Koshy, Prajakta Koli and Thembe Mahlaba talk with Michelle Obama and Girls Opportunity Alliance about the state of girls' education in the world.
Throughout eight episodes hosted by Robert Downey Jr., the series 'The Age of AI' immerses us in the world of technology, showing innovations in different fields, such as the creation of a animated digital version of will.i.am or the prototype of Project Euphonia, a project that Google is working on with NFL player Tim Shaw so that it can regain their ability to communicateThis is another series we can watch for free.
You can also see the complete version 'Could you survive the movies?', hosted by Jake Roper of Vsauce, which shows throughout its episodes whether anyone could survive some of Hollywood's most famous and beloved films, from Back to the Future and Ghostbusters, to Alien.