From SeedMagazine.com
Since writing a bestselling book on her fascinating and complex extra-dimensional theory of the universe, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall has been busy re-imagining it as an appropriately cerebral art form -- opera.
After three years of development, Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes premiered at Paris's prestigious Centre Pompidou in June and, like Randall's book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, it manages to translate the impenetrable world of theoretical physics into something that not only appeals to scientists, but to anyone willing to look beyond the obvious for clues about the nature of reality.
...As its title suggests, Hypermusic Prologue doesn't simply make art out of hard-to-grasp scientific theory, it inverts and renovates the genre of opera with an experimental score, a two-person cast, and minimalist and abstract stage design.
Review of Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes can be found in the Nature magazine, v. 460, no. 7252, (July 9, 2009): 177.
