Immersive Opera Experience
360-degree Projection Mapping
Miami Music Festival’s groundbreaking opera experiences bring the story to life by immersing audiences in the scenes.
What is Projection Mapping?
Projection-Mapping Technology has the capability of rebranding and revitalizing the performing arts to be more accessible to all generations.
Projection mapping is a technological innovation that overlaps video onto all surfaces in a given space, turning ordinary objects - such as stages, buildings, and roads - into interactive displays. Every surface can become a canvas, with graphic projections that play off the surface’s shape and textures to create a delightful experience of light and illusion. In indoor theater settings, audiences sit in the center of a room with a continuous 360-degree graphic display wrapped around the room, coming to life as they interact with performers and other production elements. A unique audiovisual narrative where the video scenes are triggered by music from our live performances.
Highlights from MMF’s immersive productions.
A moveable image can travel the full scope of the landscape where an element such as a horse can gallop around the entire room similar to the Van Gogh Immersive Experience.
IMMERSIVE PRODUCTIONS
IMMERSIVE PRODUCTIONS
On July 16, 2022, the MMF Wagner Institute, conducted by Founder and Artistic Director Michael Rossi, returned to Miami Beach in a long-anticipated performance of Das Rheingold, the thrilling prelude to Wagner’s famous Ring Cycle. This production marked the first time an entire opera has been performed with 360-degree projection mapping technology.
MMF has further delved into the technology’s possibilities, creating more audiovisual concerts in different venues which have garnered immense praise and have sparked a strong desire for more projection activations in the community. In February 2023, MMF designed Valentine’s themed graphics to accentuate The Betsy Hotel’s architectural features, turning a static structure into a dynamic canvas for visual art and storytelling. The projections were combined with live MMF singers helping the building come alive with images that shift and change in time with the music.
This past summer, MMF’s celebrated its 10th Anniversary Season with three immersive productions: Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and an Immersive Space Symphony and we look forward to many more immersive productions.
FUTURE PROJECTS
FUTURE PROJECTS
3-D Immersive Productions
Each year, MMF will create new, immersive productions to be premiered in Miami Beach before being packaged and performed in various venues across the United States.
Productions will take place at various venues in Miami Beach as part of our annual summer music festival. The 2024 summer festival will feature Wagner’s Die Walküre, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and a symphony in another 360-degree immersive setting.
The technology can also be adapted for various performance ensembles including Ballet Productions, Symphony Concerts, and Broadway Shows.
Outdoor Parks and Building Performances
In coordination with the City of Miami Beach, MMF will bring arts and music out into the community by creating free, immersive concert experiences accessible to all City of Miami Beach audiences.
This winter, MMF will present the first Miami Beach Holiday Festival of Lights - a dazzling event for audiences of all ages showcasing a blend of live musical performances, festive characters, and projection mapping displays to celebrate the holidays. Click Here to learn more about these events.
Expansion to other cities
Like the Van Gogh Immersive Experience which is now in 29 cities across the United States, MMF Projection Mapped performances can be reproduced in various spaces across the country with different opera production companies. With the main scenery and design as projections, bringing the production is very feasible and a lower cost option than Operatic Productions with Full Scenic Sets.