Siberian-born, classically trained operatic singer, multi-instrumentalist, and experimental electronic producer (and so much more) Alia Synesthesia has announced that her brand-new endeavor Horror & Opera is in full swing. The basis for the project is simple: give new life to classic cinema by re-scoring them from the public domain and pushing them back out into the public. Evidence of this can be found so far back as to two years ago where Horror & Opera released Chapter II of their rescore for the influential horror film Haxan from 1922.
Horror & Opera’s latest project sees her launching a new and immersive multi-media release titled “The Lost Opera”. This is being called a Haunted Box project, meaning that she is combining audio drama, an operatic composition titled Mortuus Messis, in both a digital and a physical package.
Alia Synethesia of H&O had this to say about the project: There’s something captivating about uncovering lost histories, hidden stories, and forgotten art. For the past year, I’ve been immersed in half composition, half research project that taps into a myriad of exciting for me themes, blends fact and fiction, myth and reality. Today, I’m excited to share the culmination of that journey: The Lost Opera Project – an exploration into the hauntingly beautiful and enigmatic world of Mortuus Messis, an opera that was performed just once in 1916 in Blackwater, Massachusetts, before vanishing into obscurity.
“The Lost Opera” will be released in both digital and physical formats. The digital version will come with downloads of the opera, the protagonist’s personal tapes, and other digital goodies that will allow anyone who’s curious to dive deeper into the story. The physical version will come with everything included above and cassette tapes, photographs, letters, and other such things. You can pre-order your copy HERE.
