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Year: 2018 | Type: Four-act chamber opera for 2 sopranos, mezzosoprano, tenor, baritone, flute, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello and piano | Duration: ca. 110'
Today more than ever, the issues raised in Karel Čapek’s 1920 play RUR are of crucial significance. Not only have people already been replaced by robots in many types of jobs, but scientists like Stephen Hawking have also repeatedly warned mankind of the threat posed by Artificial Intelligence. As well as being a work about the folly of ignoring the consequences of our own actions, R also deals with such universal themes as love, compassion and empathy. Finally, it raises some fundamental questions which the human race will certainly be forced to face in the years and decades to come: can intelligent machines develop consciousness? And, if so, do they deserve to have rights?
Notes:
The libretto for this opera is an adaptation of Čapek's work by the talented English writer Richard J. Lewis.
Since this is an opera, presenting a digital recreation here wouldn't work, not only because artificially modeling the human voice remains very difficult—although some recent developments will solve this in the near future—but primarily because the action cannot be shown.
However, if you are interested in hearing a digital recreation—no matter how rudimentary—because you are interested in considering this work for performance, please contact me.
The score for this work is currently being revised. If you are interested in reviewing it, please contact me and I will notify you as soon as it is ready.
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