OPERA & MEDIA ARTS
Symposium on the future of opera
Fri, January 24, 2020 5:00 pm – Sat, January 25, 2020 7:00 pm CET
Digital technologies are ubiquitous. Applied to opera they open up countless possibilities to offer unusual experiences and to make this art form accessible to the audience in a new way. This allows for the spark of enthusiasm to also reach those people who have never seen an opera performance before.
The Badisches Staatstheater together with the ZKM | Karlsruhe invites media artists and theatre producers to attend this symposium in the Opera and Media Arts series. Attendants will gain an insight into the development of the digital and media in musical theatre and investigate the question of what opera could look like in the year 2070. The symposium culminates in the premiere of the opera Turandot, which is staged by the Italian director Fabio Cherstich in collaboration with the Russian video arts collective AES&F and produced as a cooperation with the opera houses in Palermo and Bologna.
Program:
Friday, 24.01.2020
| 5–6 pm | Guided exhibition tour | ZKM | |
| 7–9:30 pm | Digital Freischütz VR-Oper in four episodes,15 minutes each | Badisches Staatstheater |
Saturday, 25.01.2020
| 09:30 am | Coffee & Registration | ZKM | ||
| 10:00 am | Opening ceremony | ZKM | ||
| 10:45 am | Key Note Kay Voges, Intendant Schauspiel Dortmund | ZKM | ||
| 11:30 am –1pm | Panel Cities of Media Arts – | ZKM | ||
| 1 –2 pm | Working Lunch | ZKM | ||
| 2–3:30 pm | Panel II in English Far Beyond – International Perspectives on Opera & Media Arts | ZKM | ||
| 2–3:30 pm | Best Practice International Presentation of attendants | ZKM | ||
| 2:45–3:30 pm | Panel Talk | ZKM | ||
| 3:30– 4pm | Coffee break | ZKM | ||
| 4 –5:30 pm | Panel III Art of sound – transmedial approaches in the interaction between composition, performance, and reception in the musical theatre of the 21st century | ZKM | ||
| 4–4:30 pm | Listen to the music Presentation of attendants & of the project De-Linking Sounds | ZKM | ||
| 4:30–5:30 pm | Panel Talk | ZKM | ||
| 5:30 pm | Shuttle ZKM – Badisches Staatstheater | |||
| 6 pm | Working Dinner | Mittleres Foyer, Badisches Staatsthater | ||
| 6:30 pm | Introduction Turandot | Badisches Staatstheater | ||
| 7 pm | Premiere Turandot | Großes Haus, Badisches Staatstheater |