Opera of the Future presents two performances exploring human–AI creation, from handcrafted AI instruments to a techno-apocalypse musical.

Machine Symphony & After AGI : Two Visions of Creation in the Age of the MachineTwo Opera of the Future students, Treyden Chiaravalloti and Antonis Christou, present a compelling double bill bringing together two original works that consider the same question from distinct perspectives—one shaped by a hand-built orchestra of AI-embedded instruments, the other an original musical set ten years into the future.

Machine Symphony is a live performance by composer and multi-instrumentalist Antonis Christou. Playing entirely alone, Antonis performs with an orchestra of his own invention, including, among others, hacked children’s toys, a robotic drum kit, a microtonal arcade machine, and at the center of it all, the Automatar— a custom-built string instrument with an NVIDIA GPU physically embedde