Oedipus: Sex With Mum Was Blinding

This is immersive opera, which mixes traditional performance with cutting-edge technology and emerging neuroscience, draws narrative inspiration from Sophocles’s classic tragedy Oedipus Rex. Using new technologies which turn the audience into the actual chorus of the opera, the piece rediscovers the community at the heart of a political performance, as it was in ancient times.

Mythology, pop-cultural references, and gender reexamination feed into this unique theatrical mash-up as an all-female acting ensemble of opera singers and jazz vocalists join forces with musical virtuosos — live augmented cello, piano, and new instrument — onstage for a deep dive into a haunting mind game.

The study asks: Are we free? Dο we experience free will? Are there real alternatives, or is all that takes place the outcome of necessity? An exploration into determinism and self, the answers describe either our majesty or captivity.

This event is presented by ODC Ensemble.