One November evening in Paris, Theatre du Chatelet was packed with people who came to see the French premiere of a new opera by a Japanese composer.
But it was nothing like opera as we know it.
Instead of an orchestra and singers performing the familiar theatrical music, what greeted the sellout audience at the famed opera house was a spectacle of synthesized sound, digital beat and animation produced using four large screens and more than 100 speakers.
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