Organization

Bregenzer Festspiele

Conductor

Otto Tausk

Stage director

Michel van der Aa

Set designer

Theun Mosk

Dramaturge

Madelon Kooijman

Niels Nuijten

Baritone

Roderick Williams

Father

Soprano

Julia Bullock

Daughter

Lighting designer

Singer

Claron McFadden

Childhood Friend

De Nationale Opera

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Ensemble Musikfabrik Köln

Cologne Opera

engelsk

Upload

Amsterdam

Netherlands

What if our minds could live forever—if advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience offered us a way to transfer our memories and experiences into a sustainable digital consciousness? Against the backdrop of present-day and near-future technologies, Michel van der Aa’s provocative new opera Upload explores age-old philosophical questions: What are the limits of human memory, and what happens when we are unable to forget? Where do our identities really reside—in our minds, our bodies, our relationships? And how far do the raw data of our lives determine our fate?

Acclaimed British baritone Roderick Williams and American soprano Julia Bullock, one of the most exciting and fastest-rising stars of the opera stage, play the roles of a father and daughter ineluctably confronted with such questions when his consciousness is “uploaded” following a traumatic event. Van der Aa, who wrote the music and libretto for the opera, also directs this stylistically inventive version for the screen, with the operatic duo’s stellar performances complemented by a cast of compelling screen actors. Motion capture graphics by Darien Brio and striking visual effects by fractal artist Julius Horsthuis add to the uncanny immersiveness of this unique production from one of opera’s most audacious creators.

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Upload by Van Der Aa, fre. 01 okt. 2021, Fra (2021/2021), Instrueret af Michel van der Aa,, Dirigent Otto Tausk

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