The Onion is a new opera concerning a machine that brings back memories with a sense of visceral reality, and the consequences for its inventor and her family as the machine gains in agency with every use.
The Onion is a new opera that deals with issues of memory, thought, and consciousness. The opera unfolds on an island in the Pacific Northwest where a neuroscientist has sequestered herself with her daughter, her co-inventor, and their invention, the Onion, which allows a person to re-experience a memory as a visceral reality. Rounding out the singing roles are her ex-partner, summoned in memory by both mother and daughter, and the Onion itself, which seems to gain its own personality with each use.
The Onion is a new opera concerning a machine that brings back memories with a sense of visceral reality, and the consequences for its inventor and her family as the machine gains in agency with every use.
The Onion is a new opera that deals with issues of memory, thought, and consciousness. The opera unfolds on an island in the Pacific Northwest where a neuroscientist has sequestered herself with her daughter, her co-inventor, and their invention, the Onion, which allows a person to re-experience a memory as a visceral reality. Rounding out the singing roles are her ex-partner, summoned in memory by both mother and daughter, and the Onion itself, which seems to gain its own personality with each use.
