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John Leanos Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta / A Dead Opera in Four Acts

Discipline
Performing Arts
Medium
Theater/Performance Art
Subject

Politics

War
State
California
Year
2002
Status
Completed

Description

Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta / A Dead Opera in Four Animated Acts, is a New Media Internet Opera exploring the themes of war, empire and silence. The three-act Net.Ópera combines mariachi music, operatic arias, rock-en-español and children’s songs to form a baroque and satirical libretto sung by calacas (skeletons) who have lost their lives at war. The interactive Flash website will include musical compositions, video animation, and web games. The work will début online and be developed into an interactive DVD. Leaños will later tour the work as a staged performance.

John Leanos

John Jota Leaños is a social art practitioner who utilizes all and any media to engage in diverse cultural arenas through strategic revealing, tactical …
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Project Updates

2005: First act of A Xican@ Net.Ópera is performed at the Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco
2006: Animations from A Xican@ Net.Ópera are shown at the XicanIndie Film Festival in Denver