If there’s been one silver lining for the performing arts world during the pandemic, it’s the creative use of technology: Zoom theatre performances, the streaming of pre-recorded concerts and the use of virtual reality. These initiatives have sparked new conversations not only about how technology can be used to keep a show afloat, but also about how it brings new possibilities to traditional genres such as opera. One highlight of the Hong Kong Arts Festival’s (HKAF) 50th anniversary line-up of concerts, musicals, plays and dance performances is Laila, an interactive opera that has no live singers or orchestra.
The production, scheduled to run from February 25 until April 3, will take place in a five-metre-tall, eight-metre-wide, purpose-built dome in the Maritime Museum in Central. Visitors are invited to record their…
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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2022