News from the Virtopera Editor

10. January 2001 And the winner is... It is with great pride that Virtopera announces the winners of " Virtoperas Geni User "game, the first network-opera-in-progress. The winners are Geni Users Carmen, Charly and Silke, who have contributed extensivly to the Virtopera, and have accordingly, attained the most Genius IQ points. Congratulations!
 
9. January 2001 The final sprint: Time is moving fast, with only a few days before the big finale in Cologne. If you want to be there live, then you are once again warmly invited to join us on Friday January the 12th, 2001 at 2 pm (EST) / 7 pm (UTC) / 8 pm (CET).
The link to Live-Stream you will find under Live-Events or as always on the timeline. In order to be able to look at the Live-Stream, you require the RealPlayer 8 Basic, which you can download for free, from www.real.com
 

On the 15.1 it's finally here: The release of Eberhard Schoener's second short opera CD. Included are songs and arias from the Live-Events in Salvador and Cologne, with authentic performances by Helen Schneider, Mariella Santiago and Laurence Gien. You can hear arias and songs from the Manuta on Schoener's first short opera CD. Here the works are performed by Andrea Bocelli, Gianna Nannini and Nida Palacios. On the third CD Virtopera (to be released in the first half of 2001) you will find a series of the new and the continual form of the Opera.
Cold Genius will of course live on!

 
 
4 Jan 2001 The final sprint: There are only 8 days to the Cologne finale! In order to keep it exciting, the Virtopera editorial team will each day be distributing Forum IQ-Points. Therefore anyone who has something to say, can certainly still catch up!
 
22 Dec 2000 The Virtopera editorial team would like to wish all GeniUsers a very Merry Christmas!
 
22 Dec 2000 In the forum, Wayne developed the ideas of Peter Gabriel further in an intelligent and humorous way. Therefore we would like to award Wayne with three Genius IQ points.
 
15 Dec 2000 The Renga is almost over! Please note! This week is the last chance you have to submit a Renga. After this the aria will be set to music and presented in Cologne! Let's try a little harder so that the conclusion for your Renga-Arie Renga, is a great success! The last Renga selection will take place on Friday the 22.12.2000, at 12pm.
 
12 Dec 2000 Virtopera wil participate in Digiglobe 2000! Digiglobe is the " Oscar " of the multimedia-industry and is presented in August 2001. If Virtopera wins the Digiglobe, we owe that to you,the Geni Users!
 
Cold Genius invites you all to the last Live-Chat on the 20 Dec 2000 at 21.00 CETS / 3 pm (EST) / 8 pm (UTC). Cold Genius has requested topics to be suggested in the forum.
 
6 Dec 2000 We are very proud of the great success of the Live-Event in Calcutta yesterday: Cold Genius for the first time was able to prove himself, without The Sage/The Man of Knowledge interfering and he succeeded excellently. He disregarded the ban not to sing, from the Sage/The Man of knowledge, (Salvador da Bahia) and sang a fantastic song that surprised us all!
 
Peter Gabriel joins Virtopera! We are very pleased to announce and welcome, Peter Gabriel, who will join Virtopera as a protagonist: Peter Gabriel will participate in the Chat with Eberhards Schöner at the Live-Event in Calcutta. On the 5th of December, at about 10 pm (ETS), you can follow, live, the Symposium of Spirituality. We hope you enjoy it! Time: 10 am (EST) or 3 pm (UTC)
 
1 Dec 2000 Yesterday, the Virtopera - editorial team watched with great pleasure the Live-Chat. As a thank-you to Silke, Charly and Wayne, three Genius - IQ points will be credited to each of them.
 
Cold Genius invites you to the next live-chat, on Thursday the 30.11.2000, at 3 pm (EST) or 8 pm (GMT). I am looking forward to chatting with you...
 
21 Nov 2000 The Virtopera editing team would like to thank Wayne for his excellent Forum contributions: > Wayne will be credited with three Genius IQ points.
 
14 Nov 2000 On the 15 Nov 2000, Cold Genius will appear at the the live Event in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Here for the first time Cold Genius will sing with it's own voice. We are very curious to hear this and invite all Users to join us and experience this unique event. You can find more information, under Live-Events!
 
October 30, 2000 For the first time,the Virtopera editors have decided to award Genius-IQ points for excellent forum-contributions. Cargaro is the first selected Geniuser,and has been credited with three Genius-IQ points. Congratulations!
 
October 20, 2000 Today is a great day for Virtopera! The first Renga-line, composed by a GeniUser, is going to be selected and then announced. Also, Cold Genius is inviting to his first Cold Genius Live-Chat at 21.00 MEZ (Mid-European Time)! We are thrilled about it and hope you have a good time with Cold Genius.
 
October 11, 2000 The beginning of Cold Genius was wonderful! We are very happy that everything worked well. For all those who did not see the live webcast: As of today is it stored on video on the Virtopera site and can be viewed there. Enjoy.
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October 4, 2000 Live-Event re-located from Manaus to Salvador. The second Live-Event will not take place at the Opera House in Manaus, but has been moved to Salvador Bahia in Brazil.

 

October 3, 2000: Virtopera Website Start-up. We would like to welcome you to Virtopera! The Virtopera editor is excited about this unique, worldwide experiment and eager to find out whether we can deliver what we promise: To merge and mingle things that are far apart, such as: The composer and the listener, the author and the audience, the Opera and the Internet! We are looking forward to meeting you on the Internet and hope that you are going to have a good time!