Live Performance
19:15-19:55, Friday 6th August 2021
The Cockpit
Music and Words: Marco Galvani
Picking up where Karel Čapek’s seminal 1920 play RUR left off, Helena is both a sci-fi romance and a meditation on transhumanism.
Primus, a robot, and Helena, one of the last humans, have escaped to create a new life in secret. As Helena’s human memory begins to fail, the lovers resolve to find a way of uploading her mind before it is lost – and with it the last knowledge of how Rossum’s robots were created.
Marco Galvani’s new opera places live musicians alongside spontaneously-created AI music, in a piece that explores the nature of memory and creation.
The interactive broadcast will include a Q&A with opportunity for audience to get involved with generating music via Marco’s synthesiser!
Age range: PG-13
Content advisory: Dementia, strobe lighting
In a festival of new work, please note that shows can often overrun.
Produced by Zeitgeist
Venue: The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH.
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Music and words: Marco Galvani
Musical director: Sam Poppleton
Director: Annemiek van Elst
Producer: Jessie Anand
Helena: Beca Davies
Primus: Will Frost
Hunter: George Robarts
Oracle: Anita Monserrat
Violin: Kath Robarts
Viola: Cameron Howe
Cello: Dominic Veall
On the same day:
Music and words: Marco Galvani
Musical director: Sam Poppleton
Director: Annemiek van Elst
Producer: Jessie Anand
Helena: Beca Davies
Primus: Will Frost
Hunter: George Robarts
Oracle: Anita Monserrat
Violin: Kath Robarts
Viola: Cameron Howe
Cello: Dominic Veall