Title: Looking at You
Venue and Format: HERE Arts Center, live opera
Innovation: Described by the creaters as an immersive techno-noir opera experience, it incorporates immersive storytelling, techo music, and projections into opera.
Looking at You is an immersive techno-noir opera by Kamala Sankaram and Rob Handel, confronting the issue of privacy in our digitized society. Our highly charged narrative, directed by Kristin Marting, is a story of love and espionage fusing Edward Snowden with Casablanca, driven by a dynamic score for three saxophones, piano, and electronics, inspired by dance music, crime jazz, and operatic arias. Set inside a corporate headquarters and integrating data mined from the audience in real time, it lays bare urgent questions of our time.
THEATRE/COMPANY: A HERE & Back Production, co-produced with Opera on Tap, in association with Experiments in Opera
ARTISTS:
Composer/Lyricist: Kamala Sankaram
Librettist: Rob Handel
Director: Kristin Marting
Music Director: Samuel McCoy
Actors: Paul An, Adrienne Danrich, Blythe Gaissert, Eric McKeever, Brandon Snook, and Mikki Sodergren
DATE OF PREMIERE: September 6, 2019
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
CATEGORY: Interactive, Social Media, Sound and Light
