The flying dutchman - 3D scenography

This work is the first major outcome of ARC Linkage Project 'Enhancing the impact of Australian performing arts: virtual scenography and opera for the 21st century' (LP 140110742). This work established the aesthetic viability of using 3D stereoscopic scenography created in a game engine to evoke the scenographic atmosphere and fulfil Wagner's original stage directions for The Flying Dutchman. The work combined the technological approach of 3D stereoscopic imagery with a mainstream repertoire opera to test whether these two forms could come together to form a cohesive aesthetic whole. The work was a major success, receiving 12 4 and 5 star reviews, indicating that this synergy was indeed achieved, despite the novelty of the technological imagery and the conventional nature of the opera.