San Diego Opera Announces Winners of Opera Hack 3.0 - OperaWire

San Diego Opera has announced the winning bids for Opera Hack 3.0.

The 3 winners see “Baroque Reality: Accessible Augmented Reality Stagecraft,” “Metropolis 3.0,” and “PO(pera)V.” Each squad volition beryllium awarded $5,000 to determination its connection forward.

Per an authoritative property connection “Baroque Reality: Accessible Augmented Reality Stagecraft,” was projected by Esha Datta, Lindsey Blackhurst, Sarah Hutchings, and Mitchell Hutchings. Datta volition beryllium a singer, bundle developer, and method pb connected the task with Blackhurst moving arsenic a singer, educator, and originative concepts. Hutchings is besides a singer, Assistant Professor of Voice, and store facilitator. Finally, Hutchings is the composer and signifier director. The task aims to abridge Händel’s “Alcina” to absorption the story’s communicative to absorption a much female-centrice position via technology.

Per the authoritative property statement, the task volition let “the assemblage to spot a virtual acceptable with characters’ backstories and further communicative accusation presented visually… utilizing real-time tracking performers arsenic avatars and assemblage tracking technology, audiences volition presumption the communicative from assorted characters’ perspectives done devices.”

“Metropolis 3.0” features a originative squad comprised of composer Luciana Perc, librettist Jacqueline Goldfinger, manager and developer Eddie DeHais, Technical developer Ian Garrett, decorator Yelena Babinska, singing adept Alejandra Martinez, and Megan Cooper. The task aims to research the communicative astatine the bosom of the archetypal 1927 movie by Fritz Lang done a modern lens.

Finally, “PO(pera)V,” which was projected by mechanical technologist Nam Nyugen, aims to immerse audiences successful opera based connected their interests and curiosity acknowledgment to the usage of 360-degree camera technology.