LOOKING AT YOU is an immersive techno-noir opera confronting the issue of privacy in our digitized society. Our highly charged narrative is a story of love and espionage fusing Edward Snowden with Casablanca, driven by a dynamic score for three saxophones, piano, and electronics inspired by music, crime jazz, and operatic arias.
I am thrilled to continue my collaboration with composer Kamala Sankaram and writer Rob Handel again wrestling with the question of how loss of privacy and surveillance capitalism could transform us as a global culture. After five years of development, we premiered the show at HERE in September 2019 in a co-production with Opera on Tap in association with Experiments in Opera. After a COVID pause and a leadership grant from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we are planning to tour the show in 2026.
“Director Kristin Marting, who helped develop the piece, wove the live performers and the video into an absorbing, frightening whole” – Wall Street Journal
Photos by Paula Court
Kristin Marting 