The world’s great cultural temples are now just a few clicks away, without having to travel. From the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique on Paris’ Avenue du Président Kennedy, you can see the Eiffel Tower. The digital platform of the public broadcaster ARTE cannot give us that view, but it can offer a live and free broadcast from inside the auditorium of Dream Requiem by Rufus Wainwright, which will feature the participation and voice of Meryl Streep.
It will be this Friday, June 14, at 8:00 p.m. It is a concert performed by the soprano Anna Prohaska and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under the direction of Mikko Franck, in memory of those lost during the covid pandemic inspired by the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi, one of the Canadian singer’s favourite compositions. The actress will recite the poem Darkness by Lord Byron. For those who cannot watch it live, the recital will be available in the ARTE catalogue for viewing on a delayed basis.
Where to find it: ART
The ‘First dates’ of urban music
The Reality Mixtapethe new RTVE Play format, shows how an urban music hit is created in the studio. The first episode, already available, features the collaboration between Rusherking and Abraham Mateo, under the production of Mr. NaisGai and Colla. The show shows from the moment the two artists meet until the final moment when they leave the song ready to be heard. The names involved in the five remaining episodes (which will be released every Wednesday night) are Ryan Castro, Maikel Delacalle, La Zowi, Brray, Soge Culebra, West Dubai, Aleesha, Juicy BAE, Luana and Juseph. They meet in a particular villa and a recording studio on the outskirts of Madrid.
Where to find it: RTVE PLAY
‘Parliament’, the prestigious sitcom on European politics
With the results of the European elections still fresh in our minds, perhaps it is a good time to take it with a sense of humour and turn to a cult comedy about the EU, the series Parliament. Although it is no longer in the Filmin catalogue, there is a way to recover its first two seasons: via TV5Monde Plus. It can be watched in its original version with Spanish subtitles. It doesn’t cost a single euro to sign up to this French platform, it only takes a few minutes. The protagonists are the long-suffering assistants of some MEPs who, to no one’s surprise, are dedicated to shirking any mess. At the expense of their poor advisors.
Where to find it: TV5 World Plus
12 relaxing waterscapes
Few people don’t like the sea. Or walking near a river or a lake. Although it is not the same as seeing them from a screen, at least the aquatic landscapes of the great geniuses of painting are not usually crowded with tourists or Sunday visitors. This Google Arts & Culture virtual exhibition It brings together in the highest possible visual quality works by Monet, Turner, Antonio Muñoz Degrain, Klimt, Signac and up to a dozen artists and its look at as many places in the world, from Palma de Mallorca to Venice and Capri.
Where to find it: Google Arts & Culture
Six degrees of separation from Marie Curie to Rosalía
In the 1990s, it became a fashionable American parlour game to link Kevin Bacon to any actor in the world through at most six film, theatre or television titles. It is an adaptation of the famous theory of six degrees of separation, which links any person to another through a maximum of six human connections.
Following this same pattern, the new podcast from CaixaForum+, Six degrees of connectionunravels a thread of stories linking two personalities who lived in different times through five people who knew each other. Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón (presenter of Órbita Laika on La 2), José Edelstein and Héctor Urién achieve this by recounting a handful of anecdotes and historical curiosities along the way. In the first installment they do it with Marie Curie and Rosalía. And, in the last, with Newton and Lorca. There are four others in between.
Where to find it: CaixaForum+
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