The Belfast-based, cross-border opera company Ulster Touring Opera recently completed a Future Screens NI funded R&D Project exploring how immersive technology can play a central role in developing the future audience for opera. Focusing on Augmented Reality technology in the field of opera, UTO worked with its partners in order to chart a new immersive experience, where any user can enjoy and explore world-class operatic performance in their own home.
The project drew on Act II of Mozart’s famous opera Don Giovanni, where the famous seducer is dragged to hell. Set in naturalistic settings, the libretti was selected for its surreal eruption into real space, ideal material to explore creative, technical and production advancement by staging it in the user’s own home using AR.
In partnership with Belfast based company Sentireal, Dublin based company Volograms, and UTO’s own application developer Robbie McKinney UTO has created this 5-minute-long augmented reality event, as well as the App to host this and other AR Opera experiences.
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