Looking at You
A new techno-noir opera from FlyRail.
Nerds at Silicon Hills like to party. They’re in the middle of a celebration at their massive corporate headquarters when you join in the fun. As you order a free drink from the singing, computer-generated assistant built into your table, a swirl of operatic voices, EDM and crime jazz surrounds you. You are now inside a story of high-tech espionage and sultry romance where Edward Snowden meets Casablanca. Looking At You is an immersive experience that confronts surveillance capitalism and the erosion of individual privacy in a digitized world.
“An absorbing frightening whole…Subjects for immersive theater don’t get much more relevant than the insidious spread of surveillance, which is cleverly explored in the opera Looking at You.”- The Wall Street Journal
About FlyRail
FlyRail is an arts and creative technology lab creating new multidisciplinary works of live art, from immersive opera to augmented reality and dome experiences, alongside hands-on STEAM training. FlyRail was built by the team behind Opera on Tap, which began in 2005 at a Brooklyn bar and has grown into a producing organization with a national chapter network and a loyal audience, celebrated for bringing live opera to bars and public spaces. Both are programs of FlyRail, Inc. Looking At You began in Opera on Tap’s Immersive Opera Project and continues as a FlyRail production. Learn more about FlyRail on their website.
Presented as part of the semester-long SUNY Purchase Taproot Festival.
Please note that this event cannot be used as part of a Create-Your-Own Series package.
