DA Z Digital Art Zurich DISRUPTED SCENES
Digital Art Zurich is the largest festival for digital culture in Switzerland. Its aim is to invite the world's most outstanding digital artists and thus the avant-garde of the new culture. Between October 20 and 30, 2022, DA Z will present exhibitions, installations, experiences, performances, concerts and talks at various locations in downtown Zurich.
With DISRUPTED SCENES, an experimental performance combining classical singing, electronic music and multimedia art installations on stage, the Zurich Opera House is part of DA Z for the first time.
Mezzo soprano Siena Licht Miller
Music Kaan Bulak
Staging Hans Peter Riegel
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DA Z Digital Art Zurich DISRUPTED SCENES
Abstract
DA Z Digital Art Zurich DISRUPTED SCENES
The plot of the production is based on the ancient epic of Dido and Aeneas. However, no interpretation of the ancient work by Virgil or the baroque opera "Dido and Aeneas" by Henry Purcell is to be expected. Pieces by various composers will be played.
The times in which Dido and Aeneas meet are marked by warlike conflicts, just as they are today. Dido and Aeneas are refugees. Dido and Aeneas are young people in a world whose continued existence is endangered, whose environment is being destroyed just as much as habitats and human existence by war. They are prisoners of their origins, as well as of their systems of domination, and despite their individual possibilities to work positively for a better world, they struggle with their doubts and their own demons. These young people are embodied by the two protagonists Siena Licht Miller (vocals) and Kaan Bulak (music) in musical and scenic interplay, embedded in an exciting visual storytelling.
