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The Invisible Opera is a kaleidoscopic trip through Melbourne’s beloved Federation Square. Created by Australian multidisciplinary performer Sophia Brous—working in collaboration with celebrated theatre makers Lara Thoms and Samara Hersch and New York choreographer Faye Driscoll—The Invisible Opera explores the use of architecture, surveillance, commerce and big data in our public spaces, and how we interact with them to form an “invisible theatre”.
The Invisible Opera has previously been performed at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts; steirische herbst festival, Cologne; and now at RISING, in Federation Square. At each site the performance is written entirely in response to its host city's landmarks, buildings, monuments, social and political histories, local characters, sounds and streets. Audience members slip on a set of headphones to be led by an all-seeing narrator who directs their attention in real-time, bringing into question what is real and who is watching. |
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