work-in-progress showing of ORITO and KUKA / They Who Rebuild
Groundbreaking experimental opera by composer Stephanie Pan, librettist and director Lisenka Heijboer Castañón and director Ulrike Quade, in which an industrial 3.5m KUKA robot sings, moves and interacts with a hyper-realistic Japanese Bunraku doll. Cast: Ishtar Bakhtali, Jolanda van den Berg, Yung-Tuan Ku, Roberta Maimone, Anat Spiegel, Stephanie Pan