Nicolas Party, Portrait with Snakes, 2019, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; Foto: Jeff McLane
YUM!
Wen Liu
About
YUM! is a dazzling and technologically advanced music-theatre experience that combines opera, performance art, and extended reality into a fully immersive spectacle. In a world grotesquely exaggerated and unsettlingly close at once, luxury and scarcity, beauty and decay, satire and reality collide.
Conceived by Studio M.A.R.S. based in Vienna, a young international collective with expertise in music, theatre, multimedia storytelling and immersive technologies, the project won the FEDORA Digital Prize 2025, which supports new paths of artistic expression in opera through digital innovation. The Bregenzer Festspiele provides Studio M.A.R.S. with a platform for the world premiere of YUM!
An experimental XR-music theater between delight and abyss
World premiere (2026)
Sung in English
Cast
Artistic Direction, XR Concept, Libretto & Composition Wen Liu