(L-R) Zhai Jun, Chinese ambassador in France, Myriam Mazouzi, Academy Director of the National Opera of Paris and Ken Hu, Huawei's Deputy Chairman and Rotating CEO
What do art and technology have in common? Nothing really, but today the National Opera of Paris and Huawei France have announced the foundation of the Digital Academy. The Academy functions as a unique online platform that puts digital technology, art, and education together.
So what is the Digital Academy? Well, it is the next step in the Opera's digital transformation journey and ongoing effort to make art more accessible to the public, which the National Opera of Paris is very well known for that globally. With the collaboration with Huawei, they have released what it calls the "Third Stage" – a third "theatre" in the digital world, featuring original works of performing arts, visual art, and film.
The Digital Academy has three main objectives:
- Promote the arts by providing a free online platform that takes performances and other art-related resources out of the Opera's archives and makes them openly available to the outside world.
- Support training through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on a wide range of art-related topics, including general art knowledge, techniques, and artistic practices.
- Facilitate sharing by providing more accessible, interactive digital content.
“We are honored to work with the National Opera of Paris to build the Digital Academy, where we can jointly explore the interaction between digital technology and art,” said Ken Hu, Huawei's Deputy Chairman and Rotating CEO. “The National Opera of Paris has brought opera, ballet, and music to local audiences for over 300 years. With the help of digital technology, we're looking forward to an exciting future – a world where the Opera's work in both art and education is more open and available to everyone.”
“The formation of the Digital Academy is a major step for us, enabling the opera to be far more open than ever before," said Myriam Mazouzi, Academy Director of the National Opera of Paris. "For the first time, the public, scientists, young entrepreneurs and teachers will all have access to a fantastic array of curated art and educational content on art. Going digital is an expression of our openness as an institution, both in France and around the globe."
Huawei's growing role in the arts recently gained recognition at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, where it hosted a gallery of portraits taken by renowned portraitist Billy Hidd with the P10 Plus.
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