VR-OPERA | LIBRETTO

Concept and direction:    CELINE DAEMEN

Art director:             ARON FELS

Composition:              AMARANTE NAT

Voice:                    STERRE KONIJN

Libretto:                 OLIVIER M. HERTER

Sound engineer:           WOUTER SNOEI

Spatial sound engineer:   DANIËL BERENDS

Character rig:            LOUISE VAN PUTTEN

Producer:                 CAS KETEL

Artistic coaching:        ROMAIN BISCHOFF

Illustration:             RONJA IDA WEIA

Graphic design:           MEES WALTER

Marketing:                MARITA HAMER

Business coaching:        KAREL JANSSEN

Special thanks to:        MONDRIAAN GGZ

The OPERA OF THE FALLING is a musical and visual research on the loneliness of sorrow. The piece is a virtual reality opera, inspired by interviews with people with a psychological vulnerability. With psychiatry as a mirror to the world we live in, the experience calls for reflection and universal recognition.

“The way the VR has been used to tilt the perspective between different 'I's' and the poetic form found to shape the paradox of despair – 'tell me my sorrow and say it quietly' – is impressive.” 

- De Theaterkrant

The piece was exhibited at EYE FILM MUSEUM, BRAINWASH FESTIVAL, FESTIVAL CEMENT AND FAST FORWARD AT STAATSCHAUSPIELHAUS DRESDEN.

︎︎︎ TRAILER (VIDEO)
︎︎︎ AUDIO

︎︎︎ Dutch press about OPERA OF THE FALLING