Opera Hack: San Diego Opera – Think opera’s old-fashioned? Could arias with virtual reality and 360-degree cameras be on the horizon?
In 1597, the world’s first opera was performed in Florence, Italy. More than 400 years later, the venerable art form is still being presented in largely the same form, with the world’s best-trained singers and symphony musicians performing without amplification in large theatrical halls. ...
...Opera Hack, an “ideation summit” created by San Diego Opera in 2019. ...
On Nov. 8, San Diego Opera announced the winners of its third Opera Hack contest. Three ideas created by experts from the arts and technology industries won $5,000 grants to continue developing their ideas. These winning concepts could someday lead to opera productions featuring technology used in role-playing and virtual reality video games, as well as the motion-capture techniques used in movies. ...
Baroque Reality: Accessible Augmented Reality Stagecraft
The Baroque Reality team, which includes three opera singers, aims to produce an abridged and female-centric version of Handel’s 1735 baroque opera “Alcina” that would use both mixed and augmented reality technology to enhance storytelling. ...
Metropolis 3.0
The opera will feature technological tools that include motion capture, augmented reality, production mapping, motion tracking and live video.
PO(pera)V
Mechanical engineer Nam Nguyen’s immersive performance-capture concept would allow audience members to watch an opera from multiple perspectives, ranging from a technology-free view from their seat in the auditorium to the perspectives of what the singers are seeing from the stage.
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