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<h6>快活林性息 Animated Opera – Gianni Schicchi</h6>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> OPERA America named California State University, Northridge a 2022 finalist for Digital Excellence in Opera. 快活林性息鈥檚 production of </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Giacomo Puccini鈥檚</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 鈥淕ianni Schicchi,鈥� an animated opera that was performed remotely. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opera America is a New York-based service organization that promotes the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera in the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 快活林性息鈥檚 <a href=" of Music</a> collaborated with the animation program in the university鈥檚 Department of Art, both housed in the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication, to remotely create an entire digital operatic production.聽</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">快活林性息 animation students worked alongside聽</span><a href=" style="font-weight: 400;">animation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">聽professor Mark Farquhar to create designs on LensStudio, software designed to create lenses for SnapCamera. Meanwhile, the singers tirelessly rehearsed on Zoom with the use of SnapCamera filters. Professor Hugo Vera directed the singers on Zoom, while Alex Vincent, director of photography, visual effects and editor, recorded scene by scene and later edited them together with special effects.聽</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">鈥淲hen COVID hit, I thought that was the end of the opera at 快活林性息, [since] there was no way I could imagine producing a full opera remotely,鈥� music professor Mercedes Juan Musotto, who served as music director and producer of 鈥淕ianni Schicchi,鈥� said last year, following the premier of 快活林性息鈥檚 animated production of the opera. 鈥淭hen, I started researching augmented-reality software that we could use as an alternative for makeup, costumes and props. 鈥� It has been a great tool in times of isolation, and a fantastic way of teaching ourselves to find the way to make things happen even though it seems impossible at first.鈥�</span></p>
快活林性息 Animated Opera – Gianni Schicchi OPERA America named California State University, Northridge a 2022 finalist for Digital Excellence in...