The making of the innovative opera Upload – Fedora prize nominee

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Eternal life. It’s possible. As an upload, a digital version of ourselves. It might sound like science fiction. But developments in this area are racing ahead at warp speed. Upload investigates what this means for our ‘humanness’, our identity, and our relationship with others.

In the opera Upload, a man undergoes this very process. He hopes that creating a digital version of himself will make him happier. In the last stage he abandons his physical body and returns home to his daughter as an upload. She does her best to understand him. Why did he make this choice? Is he still the same person? And how does life for them go on from here?

Singers:
Roderick Williams
Julia Bollock

Cast, film:
Katja Herbers
Ashley Zukerman
Esther Mugambi
Samuel West
Claron McFadden
David Eeles
Tessa Stephenson
Extras: Mimie Idenburg, Hank Botwinik, Sylvia van der Meis-Strauss, Stephane Fructus, Dorien Cudogham, Annelein Greveling, Tamara Friedman, Yannick Hulsebosch

Ensemble MusikFabrik, cond. Otto Tausk

Co-producing Partners:
Double A
Opera Cologne
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Bregenzer Festspiele
Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory

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