Opera GO
- Volleksbühn Asbl
- English
- Aide Carte blanche
Concept & Direction – Anne Simon
Musical Direction – Anthime Miller
With – Jean Bermes, Nataša Grujović, Marie-Christiane Nishimwe
AR – Kreativstuff, Richie Jegen, Chris Schroeder
Music Ensemble – United Instruments Lucilin
Sound Editing and Mixing – Philippe Mergen, CNA
Visual Designs: Dirk Kesseler, Anne Simon, Richie Jegen
Production Trainee: Lea Lieser
Opera GO is an operatic scavenger-hunt which takes the audience on a journey through Luxembourg City to playfully discover the diversity of opera through Augmented Reality.
This quirky, playful, walkabout experience mixing live performance and Augmented Reality starts off as a joyful celebration of creativity with live music loosely based on Ambroise Thomas’ Le songe d’une nuit d’été and Mozart’s Zauberflöte at De Gudde Wëllen.
Shakespeare’s bon-vivant Falstaff is celebrating creativity and the arts at his favorite local bar. As the party is in full swing, Mozart’s Queen of the Night appears, shocked to find that her dear darling operas have literally flown out the window. She relies on the audience’s bravery to go on a quest through the city to get her beloved operas back.
Thus, the participants are sent out to free Eurydice from the underworld and to put back into order an aria of The Barber of Seville that’s been scattered in front of the Palace. You’ll have to pass through a virtual maze, and further on, a magical forest appears once you’ve hit the right rhythm. The Queen will certainly be grateful for the help.