Re-imagining the opera of the future

Photo caption: Davóne Tines (Horselover Fat/Philip K. Dick) and Kristin Young (Sophia) perform in “VALIS” at MIT. Photo credit: Maria Baranova. Article by Anya Ventura. MIT News – September 27, 2023.

In the mid-1980s, composer Tod Machover came across a copy of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel “VALIS” in a Parisian bookstore. Based on a mystical vision Dick called his “pink light experience,” “VALIS” was an acronym for “vast active living intelligence system.” The metaphysical novel would become the basis for Machover’s opera of the same name, which first premiered at the Pompidou Center in 1987, and was recently re-staged at MIT for a new generation. […]

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