How many Bolshoi nights in two coronavirus weeks?

The subject may seem like luxury these days for some of you. But millions of people around the world are stuck in their homes. The most famous opera and ballet institutions of the world opened their shows to the world digitally and free of charge. If you want, you can watch the ballet "Nutcracker" in Bolshoi either live or on YouTube within 24 hours after it.

Every night I watch a show from the three most famous show centers in the world. The places I have chosen are Moscow Bolshoi Ballet, New York Metropolitan Opera and Milano La Scala Opera.

Among them, I have not seen any shows in La Scala and Metropolitan to date. These three music and dance arts centers have opened their doors to the world for free for the last 10 days. So how many people have watched the public-free shows in these three centers?

I asked Google administrators this question. They did a great job for me and released one by one how many people watched each show on YouTube.

Here are the world audience figures of the corona days. You can't find these figures elsewhere.

Bolshoi program

The Bolshoi program starts at 7 p.m. in Moscow time, which is the same time with Turkey. The program includes "Marco Spada" on April 4, "Boris Godunov" on April 7 and "The Nutcracker" on April 10.

Bolshoi makes an application like this: It stages a show without spectators. It starts at 7 p.m. and is broadcast live. Then this show is made public on YouTube 24 hours a day and removed after that time.

The most watched show was "Giselle" ballet with 432,075 people. The video of a Bolshoi Ballet show was watched by 197,893 people in 2019.

In 2013, the number of people watching the video of "Romeo and Juliet" ballet was 128,877. The "Swan Lake"...

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