A Spatialized Electroacoustic Opera.“Born in the Baroque period, the opera is making a strong comeback in this late-20th / early-21st century with the emergence of a new form of Baroque, the result of the globalization of information, racial and cultural melting pots, our historical knowledge of the arts, and the cohabitation of styles. This world-as-a-whole, as the synthesis of all other art forms, is a reflection of a society and an era, and it has to resemble our world through the use of modern technology and an audio-visual language that, in this age of interplanetary travel and computers, owes nothing anymore to the days of horse-drawn carriages. However, I thought it would be interesting to put this technology face to face with a timeless, quasi-mythological narrative where the author portrays two different ideas — social, political, philosophical — of Man. Thus are maintained the same issues of clear yet symbolic expression and high enough density of information to support all levels of audio-vision for all audiences. Here, technology (numerous loudspeakers, shifting points of view in computer-generated images, audiovisual rendering of various spaces…) serves humanity’s expression. Through this confrontation, technology rises above modern-day gadgetry to provide added value, or so we hope, as we believe it is more flexible and fitting to our current understanding of men and gods.”

Annette Vande Gorne, Ohain (Belgium) [English translation: François Couture, xi-16]
Blu-ray: Surround 7.1 (DTS HD Master Audio 9624) + Surround 5.1 (DTS HD Master Audio 9624) + Stereo (DTS HD Master Audio 9624) + Stereo binaural (9624). Subtitles in French (original), English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese