Multimedia Opera Production 2

So opera nowadays is getting more and more into using multimedia. Brooklyn Academy of Music introduced another multimedia "Magic Flute" with use of video images by a South African artist William Kentridge, as New York Times reports. Here is the description of the production in the article:

"The result is an exuberant dialogue between drawing and music, a three-dimensional work of art with video projected across and around the human figures onstange. Sometimes the animations echo the characters' thoughts; mathematical diagrams stand in for the teachings of Sarastro and his priests. Sometimes they reflect the music, with white lines reaching upward during a chorus, like fireworks. Sometimes they form antic glosses, suddenly coalescing into birds, a line, a dancing rhinoceros....Mr. Kentridges's "magic Flute" is based on the metaphor of the early camera, using the palette of a film negative, white on black, to reflect the opera's shifting presentation of good and evil."

As the technology advances it is quite common today to see musical works with mixture of different media. Many opera productions have attracted artists to collaborate. Opera is not just music; it has drama, dance, visual art, anything you can think of as a form of art. I am blown away every time I go to the Met to see an opera to find how creative the production can be. Opera is one huge art creation and there is no limit to how much more art it can contain. I am curious to see what direction opera is headed in the near future.

Article:
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F17F63F5B0C7A8CDDAD0894DF404482