Grand Premiere — 01.08.2026 | DOLORIN An AI Opera
ACT I. ST. PETERSBURG. 1905
«The world of the Silver Age, where the living word, the classical orchestra, and the authentic passion of Tristan Dolorin define the rhythm of a fading era.»
The opera begins in the twilight of the Russian Silver Age. Tristan Dolorin, a brilliant symbolist poet and "architect of meanings," seeks absolute truth through the power of the living word. His art is fueled by his tragic muse—a grand opera Diva whose voice balances on the edge of human emotion. But the orchestra of the old world is playing its final chords, and the reality they know is about to collapse.
ACT II. THE DIGITAL SIMULACRUM
«Reality dissolves into prompts and algorithms. The stage becomes a digital code, where AI reassembles memory, music, and human grief into a radiant hologram of a new century.»
The tragedy of the past breaks through time and dissolves into digital code. The physical theater is gone, replaced by a radiant AI environment. Human grief, memories, and poetry are processed by algorithms, transforming the historical drama into a hypnotic club-style electronic opera. Tristan and his Muse are no longer human; they are digital ghosts—perfect, cold simulacra reassembled by artificial intelligence to reenact their tragic loop for eternity.
played by Adrian Sterling (Tenor)
A symbolist poet and the "architect of meanings." He wanders through the twilight of St. Petersburg, seeking to capture the absolute truth in the dying embers of the living word.
played by Clara von Bergen (Soprano)
Tristan’s soulmate and muse of the poetry nights. Her sharp mind and poetic intuition serve as the perfect mirror to his verses, grounding his abstract visions in deep human emotion.
played by Adrian Sterling (Tenor)
A digital phantom reconstructed from the 1905 fragments. In the second act, his voice dissolves into a synthetic simulation, processing the remnants of symbolist poetry through algorithmic neural grids to find meaning in a world of codes.
played by Clara von Bergen (Soprano)
The algorithmic mirror of Tristan's muse. Reborn in the digital matrix, Ekaterina Rumyantseva is transformed into synthetic frequencies, haunting the neon twilight of the second act's cyber-deconstruction.
played by Elena Rostov (Soprano)
The architect of the virtual environment. She engineers the neon simulation and algorithmic matrix where the digital phantoms of the poets are reborn, her soaring soprano contrasting with the cold, calculated lines of code.
played by Julian Vance (Baritone)
He attempts to resurrect the lost 1905 poetry through deep neural synthesis. His profound baritone guides the mathematical reconstruction, codifying the tragic fate of Tristan Dolorin into autonomous digital grids
Presented & Curated by — Alexander Mezentsev (Curator of the Dolorin Archive)
Orchestra — Concordia Orchestra Luzern
Conductor — Mathias Weber