Is this what the future of musical theater looks like? Schönberg’s “Expectation” as a VR video game and the virtual-real chamber opera “C:/>title Labyrinth” at the Augsburg State Theater show how art and technology can work together – or not.
You go further and further into the forest, fireflies glow, mushrooms glow. You have to eat one of them to move forward. But it won’t be psychedelic. Everything you experience here is an emotional inner world, the experience of which is described by the path through the forest at night. The moon is shining, there is a house there, there are torches in front of it. And finally the goal: the beloved. Dead. You take your face in your bloody hands. Did they kill him themselves?