The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma takes a significant step towards artistic innovation with the work ODE Corporis, a project presented in the context of Videocittà, a festival dedicated to digital languages that was hosted in the industrial archaeology spaces of the Gazometro in Rome from 13 to 16 July.
Conceived by Anna Lea Antolini, this VR 360° experience represents a new way of exploring and experiencing the art of theatre and dance, realising the Foundation’s desire to integrate new artistic modes of expression into its usual practices.
ODE Corporis is part of the ODE project, an acronym for Opera Digital Experience, which marks a fundamental step by the Fondazione del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma towards artistic innovation.
The work is a journey through the body and spaces of the Teatro Costanzi and the stage workshop known as the Circles. These places, often hidden and inaccessible to the public, become the stage for a corporeal and spatial revelation, where the ancestral darkness of the stage is transformed into an exploration of suspended and surprising spaces. The bodies vibrate in the constriction of the interstices, expanding in search of new perspectives, finding themselves in a place charged with history and projected towards the future.
The ODE Corporis experience in VR 360° is a joyous celebration of the human body, immersed between material and virtual space. This work offers an unprecedented and fascinating vision of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, a theatrical elsewhere full of magic where the boundaries between real and virtual dissolve, allowing a complete physical and emotional immersion.
Videocittà 2024 for ODE Corporis represents an important stage, placing the Opera in a living context, exploring the new frontiers of technology and art.
The participation in Videocittà is no coincidence. ODE Corporis materialises the desire of the Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di Roma to express itself through extended artistic experiences, combining music, dance and cultural heritage in digital ecosystems. The aim is to involve a heterogeneous audience, from baby boomers to the alpha generation, in an unusual experimentation for an Italian opera-symphonic foundation.
This VR 360° experience not only offers a new way of enjoying theatre art, but also brings different generations closer to a form of artistic experimentation that combines the best of tradition and technology. Participation in Videocittà 2024 enshrines the relevance of this project, inviting audiences to explore the depths of theatre through an interactive and innovative lens, and represents a bold and significant step into the future.
images: (cover 1) Teatro-Costanzi 27 maggio 2024 (2) Ode Corporis, Teatro dell’Opera in VR, Videocittà 2024
