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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

Stage Director
Carmen C. Kruse

Stage Designer, Costume Designer
Lisa Horvath

Dramaturge
Sarah Théry

XR concept advisor
Flavia Mazzanti

 


XR and 3D Design
Govar GmbH, München

Production Management
Regina Fisch

Stage and Costume Assistant
Hannah Berki

Stage Manager
Rebecca Fischer

 

 


Madame D
Johanna Rusanen

Mr. Kuckl
Henry Neill

Butler
Nurettin Kalfa

 



A work designed for five soloists and a string quartet

A production by Studio M.A.R.S.

FEDORA Digital Prize 2025
In cooperation with KEARNEY

With kind support from the Friends of the Bregenzer Festspiele