MORTALITIES
Location Sort/Hvid, Staldgade 26-30, 1699 Copenhagen V
14.08.2023 - 21.08.2023
All days at 16, 16h30, 17, 17h30, 18, 19h30, 20, 20h30 & 21
Language English
Duration 55 min.

There is room for 4 persons pr. time slot.

Important: The doors close no later than 5 minutes before show start. After that, it is not possible to be admitted.

MORTALITIES is a virtual reality experience, so you will bear VR glasses and headphones.

During the performance the audience will be walking, standing, and sitting.

For this performance, Sort/Hvid’s bar and foyer has been moved outside, and it is open both before and after.

Should you be prevented from coming, please cancel in advance to sort-hvid@billet.dk and make someone on the waiting list very happy.

Concept & Artistic Direction REBEKKA SOFIE BOHSE MEYER Composition of Electronic Music, Choir & Voices SØS GUNVER RYBERG Visual Artist / Design of Environment and Characters NINNA STEEN Libretto URSULA ANDKJÆR OLSEN Animation & Choreography NINNA STEEN VR Development MANND VR Producion MARIA HERHOLDT ENGERMANN VR Lead Technic JEPPE JOST ETZERODT 3D Modelling & 3D Animation QUAD STUDIO Audio Implementation & Sound Effects FREDERIK LA COUR VFX Artist BASTIAN LEONHARDT STRUBE  Vocal Recording Engineer OLIVER MATTHEW VOLZ Text Consultants KATRINE JENSEN, ORIEN LONGO Costume WINNIE CHRISTIANSEN, MARIA IPSEN Mask Design & Production TRINE THULSTRUP Props NIELS LAU NIELSEN Producer LARS VIND-ANDERSEN Stage Managing SIGNE THORNBERG Communications and SoMe intern EMILIE MARIE PEDERSEN

Live singers ANNE-KRISTINE SKOV ANDERSEN, KATINKA MARIE FRIDA BOHSE MEYER, KIRSTEN VOSS  Singers VR ANNE-KRISTINE SKOV ANDERSEN, KIRSTEN VOSS, STEPHEN YESETA, MATHIAS MONRAD MØLLER, MIKKEL TUXEN

Thanks to MIKKEL KRAUSE FRANTZEN, JAKOB MATZEN, MIXR LAB, NIIMBLR, ARTFREQ STUDIO, PAVILLION K, JEREMY PAYNE-FRANK, TINE MEYER, SOFIE MIETKE, MIKA YUNUS BERGER ŞAHBAZ 

Funded by STATENS KUNSTFOND, BIKUBENFONDEN, AUGUSTINUS FONDEN, WILLIAM DEMANT FONDEN, WILHELM HANSEN FONDEN, DANSK KOMPONISTFORENING, DANSK SKUESPILLERFORBUND, DANSK SOLISTFORBUND 

MORTALITIES

Tickets

MORTALITIES grants you access to the underworld. The companion of Death takes you by the hand, and carefully you step out onto a long, creaking bridge and walk to the other side.

The virtual reality opera MORTALITIES is a new opera format. Four guests are let in at a time for this exclusive experience which is both physical and virtual. After an entering ritual you physically walk around in a big live installation where a multisensorial death opera is taking place.

Inspired by necroaesthetic aspects of death, the artistic team has developed six versions of death which you get to try. You travel through the cold, the heavy, the dirty, the distorted and get close to the full decomposition – before life rises from the ashes again.

The libretto by Ursula Andkjær Olsen is musically composed by SØS Gunver Ryberg giving the opera singers’ voices a new expression in an electronic universe. The visual expression is created by Ninna Steen. In corporation with MANND and Quad Studio she unites the physical world with the virtual universe. The concept is created and initiated by Rebekka Bohse Meyer who wishes to explore the potential of virtual reality in opera in Denmark with MORTALITIES.

MORTALITIES is produced by Jakobe Performing Arts in co-production with Sort/Hvid and Copenhagen Opera Festival.

MORTALITIES

Tickets
14.08.2023 - 21.08.2023
All days at 16, 16h30, 17, 17h30, 18, 19h30, 20, 20h30 & 21
Location Sort/Hvid, Staldgade 26-30, 1699 Copenhagen V
Language English
Duration 55 min.

There is room for 4 persons pr. time slot.

Important: The doors close no later than 5 minutes before show start. After that, it is not possible to be admitted.

MORTALITIES is a virtual reality experience, so you will bear VR glasses and headphones.

During the performance the audience will be walking, standing, and sitting.

For this performance, Sort/Hvid’s bar and foyer has been moved outside, and it is open both before and after.

Should you be prevented from coming, please cancel in advance to sort-hvid@billet.dk and make someone on the waiting list very happy.

MORTALITIES grants you access to the underworld. The companion of Death takes you by the hand, and carefully you step out onto a long, creaking bridge and walk to the other side.

The virtual reality opera MORTALITIES is a new opera format. Four guests are let in at a time for this exclusive experience which is both physical and virtual. After an entering ritual you physically walk around in a big live installation where a multisensorial death opera is taking place.

Inspired by necroaesthetic aspects of death, the artistic team has developed six versions of death which you get to try. You travel through the cold, the heavy, the dirty, the distorted and get close to the full decomposition – before life rises from the ashes again.

The libretto by Ursula Andkjær Olsen is musically composed by SØS Gunver Ryberg giving the opera singers’ voices a new expression in an electronic universe. The visual expression is created by Ninna Steen. In corporation with MANND and Quad Studio she unites the physical world with the virtual universe. The concept is created and initiated by Rebekka Bohse Meyer who wishes to explore the potential of virtual reality in opera in Denmark with MORTALITIES.

MORTALITIES is produced by Jakobe Performing Arts in co-production with Sort/Hvid and Copenhagen Opera Festival.

Concept & Artistic Direction REBEKKA SOFIE BOHSE MEYER Composition of Electronic Music, Choir & Voices SØS GUNVER RYBERG Visual Artist / Design of Environment and Characters NINNA STEEN Libretto URSULA ANDKJÆR OLSEN Animation & Choreography NINNA STEEN VR Development MANND VR Producion MARIA HERHOLDT ENGERMANN VR Lead Technic JEPPE JOST ETZERODT 3D Modelling & 3D Animation QUAD STUDIO Audio Implementation & Sound Effects FREDERIK LA COUR VFX Artist BASTIAN LEONHARDT STRUBE  Vocal Recording Engineer OLIVER MATTHEW VOLZ Text Consultants KATRINE JENSEN, ORIEN LONGO Costume WINNIE CHRISTIANSEN, MARIA IPSEN Mask Design & Production TRINE THULSTRUP Props NIELS LAU NIELSEN Producer LARS VIND-ANDERSEN Stage Managing SIGNE THORNBERG Communications and SoMe intern EMILIE MARIE PEDERSEN

Live singers ANNE-KRISTINE SKOV ANDERSEN, KATINKA MARIE FRIDA BOHSE MEYER, KIRSTEN VOSS  Singers VR ANNE-KRISTINE SKOV ANDERSEN, KIRSTEN VOSS, STEPHEN YESETA, MATHIAS MONRAD MØLLER, MIKKEL TUXEN

Thanks to MIKKEL KRAUSE FRANTZEN, JAKOB MATZEN, MIXR LAB, NIIMBLR, ARTFREQ STUDIO, PAVILLION K, JEREMY PAYNE-FRANK, TINE MEYER, SOFIE MIETKE, MIKA YUNUS BERGER ŞAHBAZ 

Funded by STATENS KUNSTFOND, BIKUBENFONDEN, AUGUSTINUS FONDEN, WILLIAM DEMANT FONDEN, WILHELM HANSEN FONDEN, DANSK KOMPONISTFORENING, DANSK SKUESPILLERFORBUND, DANSK SOLISTFORBUND