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Episode: Opera for the public: Spain’s Teatro Real opera house offers free broadcast to towns and cities
Description: On a night in the middle of July, tenors, sopranos and a choir delighted the crowd in Madrid’s luxurious Teatro Real opera house with Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece, “Turandot.”
After the curtain came down, the audience filed from their plush seats and left the theater’s state-of-the-art air conditioning for the summer swelter outside — only to be met again by the voices of Calaf and Princess Turandot. The performance they had just seen was being replayed on a giant television screen in the big square at the back of the theater.
Here, the spectators sat on hundreds of plastic chairs. Many...