Indianapolis Opera opens its season with “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat,” an opera by Michael Nyman based on a book of the same name by famed neuroscientist Oliver Sacks on Friday, August 21, 2015 at 8 PM. The 3-person 70-minute opera takes place in a doctor’s office, an apartment, and in the venerable mind of Dr. P., a singer and music professor who wrestles with a neurological condition known as visual agnosia.
“Opera is a multi-sensory experience, but what if you are an individual with senses that are different than what is defined by our society as “normal?” states Kevin Patterson, a Carmel native and the Indianapolis Opera General Director. “Does the lack of, or sensory deficit make you less human? “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat” focuses on those sensory attributes that define our humanity.”
“With this season Indianapolis Opera is redefining the experience of opera,” Patterson continues. “It is the human voice, on a stage, communicating to us through the art of storytelling that has the power to inspire, transform our worldview and entertain us. We are enthusiastically moving forward to explore the operatic experience with new repertory, theatre and artists.”
Partnering with GLMMR, a New York–based arts collective founded by David Adam Moore and Victoria “Vita” Tzykun, Indianapolis Opera employs state of the art technology to shift seamlessly from the world of the concrete into the abstract mind of opera’s central character. Using Mac Pro G4 software and a 20K Barco projector, traditional stage scenery will be used as backdrops for multiple projected moving images. The software allows for an infinite number of smaller images to be “mapped on space.”
“Bringing the international talents of David Adam Moore and Victoria Tyzkun to Indianapolis Opera through their team at GLMMR is like turning George Lucas and Industrial Light and Magic looks on an opera. The results are going to be a stunning evening of visual and aural storytelling,” adds Patterson.
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Submitted release courtesy of the Indianapolis Opera.
