The Cyborg — Opera

“The human has become part of technology.” That is the statement at the centre of The Cyborg — Opera: not a warning, not a celebration. A fact to be inhabited.

The opera follows a woman’s life through a gradual cyborg transformation — from the first implant at birth to a future in which AI systems regulate her body’s functions, and she becomes an observer of her own processes rather than their subject. The question the work pursues is not whether this is good or bad, but what it feels like — and whether the feeling can still be called human.

The stage is built around a holographic nerve centre: an installation in which the protagonist navigates her body’s data through physical gesture. A depth-sensing system translates her movements into a bodily interface — when she reaches into empty air, her past opens around her. The space is simultaneously intimate and clinical: the interior of a body that has learned to watch itself.

The work is in pre-production. Three days of concept filming in 2023 produced pre-visualisations of three scenes, testing the installation logic and the live performance approach.