PhD Student Position for 3D Video Coding in the Verdione Project
Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:00
The open PhD position in the Verdione project is closely connected to the World Opera, a cooperation between artists, researchers and industry partners gathered around the vision of expanding the tradition of opera into digital space. The ambitious goal is to construct a distributed mixed-reality environment with high-quality audio and 3D video projection where musicians and actors can perform together and explore new types of interactions without being restricted to a single geographical location on the world. Among the World Opera partner institutions are the Academy of Music in Tromsø, University of Oslo, CCRMA at Stanford University and CIRMMT at McGill University as well as opera houses and opera academies in San Francisco, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Milan. The Verdione project will provide robust networking, video coding and media synchronization support for live performances at the World Opera. The PhD student in the offered position is expected to perform research in the field of real-time 3D video coding and 3D display technologies.
new ph.d. position in Verdione at Simula on Resilience
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 09:05
PhD position in NFR StorIKT project Verdione
Verdione is 4 year research project funded by the Norwegian research council. The project has several Norwegian and international partners, and among them are Telenor R&I, which is one the fastest growing mobile operators worldwide. Verdione targets cooperative applications that merge virtual elements into the real world. The main application example is a World Opera. The ultimate goal is for users, including musicians, actors, singers and spectators, to become immersed in a virtual reality that includes their local environment, and where users' arbitrary actions can be disseminated to their remote communication partners. The resilience of the network is then of high importance. To improve Verdione's ability to react to network problems, network resilience is a key research topic. This will be the main focus for the announced PhD position. A resilient overlay network interworking with the underlying network infrastructure is one potential research topic.
Open postdoc position in Verdione
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 06:44
Verdione-partner Simula has announced an opening for a PostDoc position in Verdione.
WOP-Wiki is running, please join the discussion
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 15:53
Dear all world opera/Verdione folks
At this link http://sre.cim.mcgill.ca/worldopera/bin/view/WorldOpera/WebHome
you can find the new wiki for the World opera/Verdione project and it is ready to be the online forum for all kinds of discussion around the World opera, especially the Verdione project, exploring the technology challenges in relation to the idea of creating a distributed opera. I will thank Jeremy Cooperstock a lot for having established this wiki and especially for having listed a lot of important issues for consideration in the coming years around the project.
World Opera Symposium May 8-10, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 15:51
International Symposium/workshop
"The World Opera:
When the Opera stage becomes worldwide:
The creation of a distributed Opera stage"
Tromsø May 8.-10. 2008 organized by The World Opera in cooperation with the University of Tromsø and the University college of Tromsø/The Academy of Music
"The World Opera:
When the Opera stage becomes worldwide:
The creation of a distributed Opera stage"
Tromsø May 8.-10. 2008 organized by The World Opera in cooperation with the University of Tromsø and the University college of Tromsø/The Academy of Music
Preliminary program for The World Opera symposium May 8-10 2008:
Location: Academy of Music, Tromsø
May 8, 2008:
09.00-09.15 Welcome by the Presidents of University of Tromsø and University College in Tromsø
Seminar on " Opera on screen" June 25, 2007 at 1pm. at The Academy of Music in Tromso, Norway
Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 12:33
http://www.norway.org/restech/researchnews/verdensteatret+and+the+met.htm
Program:
13.00-13.15 Welcome
13.15-14.15 " Opera on Screen: Transmitting or Producing " by Mark Schubin, Engineer-in-Charge, The Metropolitan Opera, New York
14.15-14.30 Coffee break
14.30-15.00 discussion
15.00-15.30 " Around the Opera - Intermission show, texts etc." by Karen McLaughlin, the intermissions associate director of the Met cinemacasts, The Metropolitan Opera, New York
15.30-16.00 The World Opera : introduction to a vision of a distributed Opera House by Niels Windfeld Lund, The World Opera, Tromsø
Note on Guest speakers:
Mark Schubin has been working professionally in television since 1967 and on opera and music television since 1972. I'm technological consultant to "Live
from Lincoln Center" and the Met's engineer-in-charge. He is a fellow of the Society of Motion-Picture and Television Engineers and have written
hundreds of articles on television technology. He was awarded a U.S. patent for a pay-TV system designed specifically for music programming.
Karen McLaughlin is a Juilliard-trained harpsichordist who has been working on opera and other music on television since the 1970s. She is currently the television directorfor the distance-learning program at Carnegie Hall (one recent project involved musicians collaborating in New York and Bamako, Mali). She is production consultant to "Live from Lincoln Center" and has served as
producer, director, and associate director on many television-music projects. She has also served as an opera-company evaluator for the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.
They have worked on not only the Met's TV shows but also those shot at Glimmerglass Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Washington National Opera (they have also worked at the Paris Opera, the Monaie in Brussels, and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires but on dance shows). Both have won Emmy Awards for their work.
"The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD" trailer
Monday, December 11, 2006 - 14:54
Watch the "Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD" teaser trailer, tailor made for The World Opera by The Metropolitan Opera.
Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD
Friday, December 8, 2006 - 16:11
The World Opera has joined as a partner in the Metropolitan High-definition broadcast project. As announced today at a press conference at the World Theatre (Verdensteatret) we will bring World Class live performances from the Metropolitan Opera to a theathre in Tromsø, Norway, Paris of the North: namely the World Theatre.
The broadcast will be sent per sattelite from New York via England to Norway. There will be six live shows this winter/spring, beginning as soon as December 30, the day before New Years eve, with an English-language version of Mozart's «The Magic Flute»