“Along with HKAF’s 50th anniversary, it will be one of Hong Kong SAR’s 25th anniversary events. “ Laila is easy to position as it is a huge production,” Ho states.
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With the Hong Kong government prioritizing innovation and technology plus art and culture, Laila is a good fit. The opera will make its international debut in Hong Kong with HKAF as co-producer. Laila premiered in the fall of 2020 in Helsinki and went on to win the Fedora Digital Prize, Europe’s largest opera and ballet competition. “So in a way, everyone gets a tailor-made experience and everybody’s experience is going to be slightly different.” “The whole point is that when the visitor enters the dome - this sphere where all this happens - he or she, actually with their own actions, influences the experience,” Salonen explains. She is everywhere and nowhere at the same time,” says Esa-Pekka Salonen, Laila’s composer and conductor, of the show’s titular character. “She knows everything: she knows the past, she knows the future. Each participant will induce an evolution of music and visuals in accordance with unique movements. With a libretto by Paula Vesala, the character of Laila invites audiences to help create her reality and a world where AI rules. Together they provide a show unique to each person who enters the Laila dome in Hong Kong Maritime Museum. The opera incorporates artificial intelligence, VR, video-projection mapping, 360 spatial sound and real-time sensors. “FNOB has an excellent orchestra, but our experience and know-how in terms of immersive experience is limited, so we decided to arrange an international competition for immersive experience makers - virtual reality, augmented reality and other combinations,” Salonen recalls.įNOB selected the Ekho Collective - a group of young Finnish digital designers, movement designers and coders - to develop a user-rather-than-narrative-based experience. “The idea was to create an immersive experience that would utilize the resources of an opera house,” explains Esa-Pekka Salonen, Laila’s Finnish composer and conductor, in a virtual press conference hosted by Ho in May 2021. Laila is rooted in Finnish National Opera and Ballet’s (FNOB) Opera Beyond, an international open competition held two years ago that yielded the concept.
The company’s Opera Beyond contest yielded the idea for Laila, the headline production of this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival. Lilli Paasikivi, artistic director of opera at Finnish National Opera and Ballet. “ Laila is a new focus for us that aligns and supports art tech.” “Virtual reality has always been a part of our festival as a way to tell stories and engage audiences, but it was one strain of what we do,” says Tisa Ho Kar-kuan, HKAF’s executive director. Whether through the immersive opera Laila, the interactive piano recital Nirvana or the conceit of uploading audiences into the theater for To Be a Machine, this year’s artists are exploring technology’s infinite ways of reaching people. Learning from the two previous editions of disrupted live shows, it is no surprise that technology plays a big role in HKAF’s roster.
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A series of online and in-person performances has been lined up to cope with a third year of pandemic-induced restrictions.
Hong Kong Arts Festival 50th edition kicks off in February, and all hands are on deck to ensure that everyone invested in the milestone will be rewarded. Laila uses artificial intelligence, virtual reality, video-projection mapping, 360-degree spatial sound and real-time sensors to create an immersive, interactive experience that is personalized to each audience member. Hong Kong Arts Festival is all set to deliver a high-voltage 50th anniversary program where the marriage of art and tech will be much in evidence.
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