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FULL UPLOAD (Michel van der Aa) Amsterdam 2021 Julia Bullock, Roderick Williams
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Upload
- Composer: Michel van der Aa)
- Libretto: Michel van der Aa Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Dutch National Opera, Ansterdam, The Netherlands
- Recorded: 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Julia Bullock, Roderick Williams
- Conductor: Otto Tausk
- Orchestra: Ensemble MusikFabrik
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Dutch National Opera:
Michel van de Aa is an internationally active artistic and multidisciplinary pioneer. DNO has previously performed his After Life and Blank Out, perfect amalgams of theatre and (3-D) film. In 2019 van der Aa created the first virtual reality opera, Eight.
In the opera Upload, a man undergoes the transformation from living being to immortal digital entity. He has a digital version of himself made, hoping this will make him happier. The last step is renouncing his physical body, after which he can live on as an upload. In this manifestation, he comes back home to his daughter. She didn’t know about her father’s decision to have himself uploaded and she tries to come to grips with him. Why did he decide to do it? Is he the same person? And will it be possible for them to carry on like this?