Launched 3 July 2007 Broadcast area Europe Parent organization Stingray Digital | Owned by Stingray Digital Founded 2007 | |
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Formerly called Brava HDTV (2007-2013), Brava HD (2013-2016) Profiles | ||
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Stingray Brava HD is a Dutch cultural HDTV channel aimed at the European market which launched on 3 July 2007. The programming consists of opera, ballet, and classical music concerts. Productions are recorded in opera houses such as the Royal Opera House, the Teatro Real, and La Scala. The productions consists of stage performances such as La bohème, Othello, Aida, Swan Lake, Tosca, Zoroastre and Così fan tutte. The channel was founded by Jur Bron and Gerard Ardesch and co-owned by their company TV Digitaal BV and Strengholt BV until 31 July 2015. Since 31 July 2015 the channel is owned and operated by the Canadian company Stingray Digital.
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History
Brava was founded by Jur Bron and Gerard Ardesch. The pan-European Brava HDTV (now Stingray Brava Europe) was launched in 2006, and Brava NL (now Stingray Brava Dutch), which is broadcast in Dutch and focuses on Dutch contents, began on 1 July 2009. Brava was co-owned by Strengholt BV between 23 December 2011 and 31 July 2015.
On 25 November 2010, Brava launched Brava 3D, which showcased stereoscopic 3D television content across Europe as a Free-to-air channel on the Astra 3B satellite. The channel, however, was closed down on 1 August 2012.
The Canadian company Stingray Group took over Brava on 31 July 2015. Followed by Cultuur 7 in Flanders in October 2015, which merged with Brava on 1 December 2015. Both versions of Brava (all of which simplified names to Brava in 2014) were renamed as Stingray Brava at the end of 2016.
The Stingray Brava brand was abolished on 1 March 2019, in favour of Stingray Classica. Stingray acquired Classica brand and channels from Unitel in Germany in 2017.