Szene aus "Upload", 2021 im Festspielhaus, Frau in rotem Kleid, links dreiteiliger, großer Bildschirm mit Gesicht im Profil

Upload

Michel van der Aa

About

Is it possible to continue living after death by uploading our consciousness? It sounds like science fiction, yet scientific advances may one day make it possible to transfer our experiences and thoughts to artificial intelligence and create a digital copy of ourselves. This would amount to a kind of "virtual resurrection" with perpetual existence. But what would be the price of immortality?

 

Commissioned and co-produced by Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, Oper Köln, the Bregenzer Festspiele, Park Avenue Armory, New York, Ensemble Musikfabrik, doubleA Foundation


PREMIERE
29 July 2021 – 8 p.m.
Werkstattbühne 

 

Film opera (2021)

Libretto by the composer

Staged world premiere

Sung in English with German surtitles

Cast

Conductor
Otto Tausk

Composer, Stage Director, Libretto
Michel van der Aa

Stage Designer, Lighting Designer
Theun Mosk

Costume Designer
Elske van Buuren

Dramaturge
Madelon Kooijman, Niels Nuijten

Film Director
Joost Rietdijk

Motion Capture, Real-Time Graphics
Darien Brito

VFX Supervisor & Fractal Artist
Julius Horsthuis

 


Father
Roderick Williams

 


INSIGHT