Internet opera

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internet opera
Social software ; moderated web forum
languages German
Registration Only required for uploads and downloads
On-line 2009 (interactive functions activated since January 9, 2010) (currently? HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.)
www.internetoper.de

The Internet Opera was a net art project of the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen in cooperation with RUHR.2010 , the Henze project and 2010lab.tv. Other partners were the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen and HAW Hamburg . The project is supported by the Gelsenkirchen Community Foundation and the City of Gelsenkirchen .

It was an interactive music theater project in the form of a website. Videos generated by the user could be uploaded to this, based on certain material and dramaturgical specifications. A blog with comments and a text chat were also available.

Idea and dramaturgical concept

At a preparatory meeting for the Ruhr 2010 European Capital of Culture project, the General Director of the Musiktheater im Revier Michael Schulz first expressed the idea of realizing an interactive opera project on the World Wide Web . The choice of material fell on the story of Manon Lescaut , which is why the project is also subtitled The Manon Affair . Internet users were asked to produce digital video films using specified material and then to present them to a broad audience on the Internet opera website. Because of the high inhibition threshold for the supposed high culture, collaborations with schools were carried out. Internet users were able to select parts of the opera, which was divided into fifty episodes, and upload videos they had created themselves, thus contributing to the overall work of art.

The project pursued various goals:

  1. The opera genre should be questioned as such: How does opera work at the beginning of the 21st century?
  2. New possibilities for realizing operas were to be explored and tested, whereby the editors of the internet opera attached importance to the “ playful approach” and understood the internet as “ interactive , communicative and anarchic”.
  3. A new target audience should be addressed.

“The internet opera is supposed to combine the dynamism and creativity that only the internet and its community in all its diversity can unleash with the fascination of opera and its narrative density and thereby create new narrative forms, possibilities for interpretation and visual aesthetics. Through the necessity of participation, it eliminates the separation between performing artists and the receiving audience. The special thing about the internet opera is that it only emerges as a total work of art opera on the World Wide Web; the stage will be the diversity of the city, the region, the world and those spaces that people choose for the narration of this exciting Amour fou between Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier des Grieux wish and choose. "

implementation

The fictional story was first published in 1731 by Abbé Prévost as the novel Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (German: History of Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut ) and then set to music by several composers. Together with the prose text by Abbé Prévost, the setting by Giacomo Puccini ( Manon Lescaut ) and the implementation by Hans Werner Henze known under the title Boulevard Solitude form the basis of the project.

The dramaturges and directors of the Musiktheater im Revier developed a storyboard in 50 parts from the material from the three models . This was presented to the user in the form of numbered scene descriptions in the “toolbox”, with non-binding staging suggestions also being available at this point . A music excerpt of a maximum of three minutes was also available for each episode. These audio recordings were made by soloists and the opera choir of the Musiktheater im Revier and the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen under the direction of their chief conductor Rasmus Baumann in cooperation with the media technology course at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and were available in three versions:

  1. As an audio file for registered users to download, which included orchestral voices and vocals.
  2. As an audio file for download for registered users, which only contained the orchestral part.
  3. As an orchestral video in the form of a streaming video.

In addition, the website provided the text of the novel in German translation, the two librettos and the contents of all three works. If the user had created a video with the help of this material, he could present it to the online community on the Internet opera's website and put it up for discussion there. In doing so, the user granted the publishers a worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty-free right to use their contribution.

On December 18, 2010, as part of the closing event of RUHR.2010, prima ballerina Jessica Mezey and Cologne director Kim Anderson staged a multimedia performance on the net opera.

As a result of a program with school classes, several awards were also given to students participating in the project in July 2011.

literature

  • Alan Bonardi, Francis Rousseaux: Composing an Interactive Virtual Opera: The Virtualis Project. In: Leonardo. 35, 3, 2002, pp. 315-318.
  • Björn Heile: Recent Approaches to experimental music theater and contemporary opera. In: Music & Letters. 87, 1, 2006, pp. 72-81.
  • Dieter Rexroth (ed.): The composer Hans Werner Henze. Schott, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-7957-2354-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.internetoper.de ( Memento from February 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Award ceremony. Internet opera “Manon” as a comic or TV soap opera. Article from July 11, 2011 on ruhrnachrichten.de , accessed on December 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ The Henze Project. on essen.de ( Memento from April 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Manon Lescaut as an internet opera to make yourself. Article from September 12, 2009 on derwesten.de , accessed on December 27, 2014.
  5. ^ Homepage of the Internet Opera ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: Interview with Anna Melcher, chief dramaturge of the Musiktheater im Revier .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.internet-oper.de
  7. ↑ Experiment on Ruhr.2010 - Opera on the Internet. ( Memento from December 27, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Ruhr Nachrichten , January 14, 2010.
  8. ^ Ruhrzeit on June 18, 2010: The Internet opera pushes an extra layer
  9. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: From the interview with the production team (Michaela Dicu, director and Dirk Schattner, production dramaturge) .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.internetoper.de
  10. ↑ a b Material on internetoper.de ( Memento from July 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  11. ↑ Internet Opera : The Power of Experimental Art. from Kulturhauptstadt.gelsenkirchen.de , accessed on December 27, 2014.
  12. ↑ Toolbox on internetoper.de ( Memento from January 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  13. ↑ a b User information on internetoper.de ( Memento from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  14. ↑ Internet Opera in Istanbul , WAZ from December 31, 2010 ( Memento from September 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
  15. ↑ Christiane Rautenberg: Hollywood flair at Internet Opera Awards in Gelsenkirchen. DerWesten, July 12, 2011, accessed December 15, 2011.