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29 July 2021. Bregenzer Festspiele. Upload is an opera in nine scenes with music and text by Michel van der Aa. The 2021 productions were conducted by Otto Tausk and directed by Michel van der Aa.
“Upload”, the new film opera by Michel van der Aa exploring how life could become eternal in the digital sphere, receives its stage premiere at the Bregenz Festival on 29 July. A film version will be screened by Medici TV and streamed by Dutch National Opera from 19 July.
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Mar 23, 2022 · Van der Aa’s creative team has been a constant, among them the dramaturgs Madelon Kooijman and Niels Nuijten, and Theun Mosk, who designed the smoothly integrated set and lighting; Tom Gelissen ...
Mar 24, 2022 · Michel van der Aa's Upload, which opened an eight-night run at Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory on 22nd March, posed such aesthetic questions – and deeper existential ones – in a compelling and altogether contemporary new opera. The story concerns a man who has opted for a not inexpensive service which uploads his psyche into cyberspace.
- Kurt Gottschalk
The chamber opera One represents a new kind of music multimedia drama. Michel van der Aa’s poetic production of technological virtuosity fuses libretto, video, live music and soundtrack with the soprano voice and stage presence of Barbara Hannigan into ‘One’.
Apr 16, 2013 · Staged by the English National Opera, and described as “an occult-mystery film opera” by its Dutch composer, stage director and filmmaker Michel van der Aa, it is a provocative...
Opera and music theatre. Vuur (2001), opera, for solo voice, actors, singers, ensemble and soundtrack; One (2002), chamber opera, for soprano, soundtrack and film libretto by the composer; After Life (2005–06), opera, for six solo voices, ensemble, soundtrack, and film libretto by the composer, after Hirokazu Kore-Eda
