Theatre Tech Talks: Artificial Intelligence, Science, and Biomedia in Theatre - Meltdown, an Opera About Two Thousand Ice-Elephants Melting Every Second

Meltdown, an Opera About Two Thousand Ice-Elephants Melting Every Second

04/01/25 • 38 min

Theatre Tech Talks: Artificial Intelligence, Science, and Biomedia in Theatre

Host Tjaša Ferme chats with David Cote and Hai-Ting Chinn about their opera, Meltdown. This is an adventurous episode about arctic expeditions, drilling ice cores, what monodrama really means, and creating unique experiences mixing operatic tragedy with funny ukulele songs about pee bottles.

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