Google puts you virtually on stage at concerts and operas

Each excellent art performance is not an overnight achievement, but a product of rehearsals and sacrifice. Visitors to the site can have a 360° view of Carnegie Hall, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Bolshoi Theatre and more.

From Carnegie Hall to the Metropolitan Opera in NY to the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Google Cultural Institute announced that they will be partnering with 60 worldwide performing arts institutes to bring 360-degree performances to your desktop or mobile, thanks to YouTube. However, now, Google is letting everyone have front row access to the stage by releasing a new virtual exhibition that gives viewers 360-degree views of the performances. Now, the at-home viewer can get something you can’t see even if you visit these places in person-like floating 83 feet above the floor to examine the ceiling of the Stern Auditorium, or bouncing from seat to seat to wing to backstage while the orchestra plays at Carnegie Hall. The Google Cultural Institute was founded in 2011 to enable anyone with an internet connection to have access to arts from around the world, according to Sood. It initially had a handful of popular museums, and later with more than 900 plus institutions like street art, historic archives and 200 of the world’s wonders.

Through the collaboration with Rome’s Teatro dell Opera, users will be able to watch the production and behind-the-scenes moments from the “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” opera, using Google Cardboard 3D viewing glasses for a virtual reality experience.

Amit Sood, Director of the Google Cultural Institute commented: “We are delighted to collaborate with so numerous world’s renowned performing arts institutions, representing the best in drama, dance, music, and opera”.

The project’s goal “is for Google technology to make culture available to anyone, anywhere”, Piotr Adamczyck, Google Cultural Institute’s program manager, told the Wall Street Journal.