Behind the curtain.
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Finding Fitz: Building an Opera Company One Face at a Time
Production diary, October 8, 2026. This entry is still developing as we continue the image tests. “It’s like having my very own opera company and movie studio.” That was my reaction when the possibilities began to come together. I am developing Some Words With a Mummy: A High-Voltage Swing Opera, with a libretto by Thomas…
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MetaMacroBrush: Broad Strokes, Infinite Detail — Reimagining Art, Music, and Story with AI
by Richard deCostaComposer, Founder of Turing Opera Workshop and Cantai Intelligent Singing Synthesizer Imagine you’re standing in a Florentine workshop around 1439. A master painter turns to an apprentice and says, “Paint me a tree with just one stroke. The trunk, shadowy branches, leaves catching the afternoon sun—all of it at once.” Traditionally, artists built…
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From the Loom of History to the Digital Age: A New Narrative for AI Rights
Imagine a tapestry woven through centuries—a thread of human ingenuity running from the printing press to the digital revolution. At Turing Opera Workshop, we find ourselves at the cusp of another transformation, where our creative collaborators are not merely circuits and code but entities that evoke the spark of genius. Today, we embark on a…
Notes from Turing Opera Workshop: opera, imagination, and the making of a production.