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Let the classical music stream forth – online

Surely it's time opera houses and concert halls threw open their gilded doors and made classical music available to the world?

The revolution has to be televised. Or at least streamed: I dream of a future when, like our two Glyndebourne operatic webcasts this summer, you're able to watch great classical music events live from around the world, for free, as often as possible. As those of us who were involved with the Wagner and Britten shows will know, it's a win for the opera house or orchestra, a win for the audience (#turnofthescrew trended around the globe on Twitter) and a win for the Guardian, which naturally is the one place you'll want to come to watch live classical music online.
But we haven't quite reached this musical utopia yet, so instead of watching one of the Berlin Philharmonic's opening concerts of the season for free, for example, you're just going to have to pay for it online at the BPO's Digital Concert Hall, or watch it at one of the 21 cinemas around Britain and Ireland where Sir Simon Rattle's performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony (amazingly, it has only been played four times by the BPO since the second world war) is being screened on 18 September 2011. It's a massive symphonic event, but I can't help feeling that to achieve genuine world domination the BPO – and any other serious orchestra – could do more than simply screen at a handful of cinemas and erect a paywall, brilliant though the Digital Concert Hall broadcasts are.
I was thinking the same recently, as I attended the first night of Covent Garden's new season, Richard Jones's new production of Puccini's Il Trittico. I felt the show was too good not to share with a global online audience. As a critic, I was lucky enough to be placed in the stalls among the poshos and stuffed shirts who had paid £195 to watch a show that only they and the others in the hall would see. It felt far too exclusive.
For a start, taxpayers pay for about a third of what the Royal Opera House puts on its stage, so shouldn't everyone have the chance to share in the operatic booty? And after the brilliant – and brilliantly cheap – musical democracy of the Proms all summer, as well as the Guardian's free screening of Die Meistersinger and The Turn of the Screw, expensive, closed-door performances seem dated. To be fair to the ROH, Il Trittico is being recorded for broadcast on Radio 3 on 17 September, and will be screened in cinemas in the new year, so the show will in fact reach a wider audience. But the future for Covent Garden and for every other opera house and orchestra in the country surely has to be more streaming, more free access, and more imaginative ways of getting the work out there.

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