NOD4

"DIGITAL MODELS"

Nov. 2, 2023

16:00-22:00 CET

During the COVID-19 pandemic, “the digital” swiftly became a focal point for opera companies and creators alike. From industrial conferences to artistic commissions, opera houses committed time, money, and resources to this previously overlooked sector. Nevertheless, as the pandemic’s impact on live performance gradually waned, so too did institutions’ enthusiasm for this topic. For our fourth dialogue, “Digital Models”, New Opera Dialogues wants to double down on the role of digital technology in new opera, moving beyond the framework of the pandemic to consider it in the context of traditional, analogue forms.

PARTICIPANTS

PROGRAM

16:00

Welcome (Amy Stebbins)

OPERA HOUSE SHOWCASE

(Moderator: Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby)

16:05

Tina Lorenz, "New Stages: The Digital Theatre at the State Theatre of Augsburg”

Miia Lallukka, "Finnish National Opera: Opera Beyond project Interactive installation Laila"

Marcus Lobbes, "Rethinking Institutional Forms: The Academy for Theater and Digitality"

16:35

Dialogue

17:15

Break

PROCESS

(Moderators: Sandra Eberle & Hauke Berheide)

17:30

Joshua Higgason, "Through the Lens: Creating the AR design for Bayreuth’s Parsifal"

Marcus Lobbes, "Images at Play: computer game dramaturgy and the performing arts"

Maurice Mersinger/ Felipe Sanchez-Luna, "Chasing waterfall: Composing code and music for the first AI Opera"

18:00

Dialogue

18:45

Break

19:00

Elo Hübner, "Bi-Directional Communication: Digital Tools as Opportunities for Participation, Accessibility and De-Hierarchization"

Michel van der Aa, TBD

Jan Duczynski, "Virtual Poems: New Forms of Music-Theater"

Cerise Lim Jacobs & Jon Robertson, "Live Virtual Fully Produced Opera: A New Performance Genre"

19:40

Dialogue

20:15

Break

AESTHETICS

(Moderated by Ulrich Kreppein)

20:30

Huihui Cheng, "The Presence of Digital Elements in an Operatic Scenario"

Derrick Skye, "Application of Artificial Intelligence in Opera"

Sara Glojnaric, "Opera as a multi-perspective film: The making of Im Stein"

21:00

Dialogue

21:45

Conclusion

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