You are facing a large screen. You have stereo glasses on. On the screen is a singer. Together with the singer are you floating down along a hightower building. You can feel the air bite on your skin. If you look up, you see the sky and the moon. Are you looking forward, the viewing angle is directed down, first at an infinite nothingness since towards a endpoint; the earth which you inevitably will hit.

The digital opera installation Honeymoon test the human senses in ways that are rarely seen in the performing arts. It is interaction designer Signe Klejs together with composer Niels Rønsholt who has produced Honeymoon in collaboration with TEKNE Production and the Danish National Opera.

Honeymoon is one of a series of collaborative works between TEKNE Production and the Danish National Opera, where artists are given the opportunity to challenge the opera format with the use of new technology.

The recording of Honeymoon was placed in TEKNE Production’s Motion Capture studio, making it possible to create more scenery than is physically possible in a operahall. The two opera singers, Joachim Knop and Susanne Elmark, who recently participated in the Royal Academy Opera’s successful setup of the Magic Flute, holds the two main roles in the digital opera.

Honeymoon is designed as an installation where the audience alone experiencing a challenging honeymoon with a virtual bride or bridegroom, for a period of approx. 10 minutes. The journey begin with a fatal jump from a hightower block and ends in a inevitable collision with the earth.

Dan Bjerg Produktioner