We have to do live stage performances. What will happen at The Kitchen will be a very beautiful still image where all the ingredients keep changing, which is quite different from what you might do if you took the same narrative and produced it for television. Everything is speeded up for us. We live in television time now. You see things that are 200 years old.
Opera houses are music museums.
Everybody's writing an opera now, but the problem is that everybody is writing conventional operas. We seem to have not quite come around to real time yet. I'm criticizing my colleagues here, but it's a very bad, old fashioned time. The designer and video artist Yukihiro Yoshihara has created very large windows that are in front of each singer. They're a laminate that becomes opaque when you apply an electrical voltage to the window.