Current Rising
A VR OPERA FOR THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
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Created over a period of two years in collaboration with the pioneering Audience Labs at the Royal Opera House and Figment VR Productions, Current Rising was the first opera created in hyper reality, a fully immersive, multisensory VR opera experience.
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“Bold, innovative and exciting — this is exactly what London’s arts institutions should be doing”
Evening Standard
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“inspired by the liberation of Ariel at the end of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the pioneering video artist Netia Jones has created a spectacular, surreal and apocalyptic world, set to ethereal, bewitching music by Samantha Fernando…It’s unlike anything. Go”
Observer
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“utterly extraordinary”
Stage
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“awesome, powerful, mind-bending”
A Younger Theatre