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How we wrote an opera in lockdown via remote creative development

How we wrote an opera in lockdown via remote creative development

When the pandemic hit, the only opera project the Royal Opera House could continue working on was an unlikely, experimental collaboration between ROH’s Audience Labs and a VR studio.

But how do you begin to shape a new original opera in hyper-reality on Zoom? As the producer, I had to re-think the creative development process – here’s how to do it.