Metamorphose– A Transformative Opera

A multimedia journey through the evolution of human consciousness
Residency: Life Itself Hub

This work-in-progress opera is a bold return to the ancient roots of theatre as a sacred, cathartic space—a space not merely for spectacle but for transformation, healing, and communion with the divine. Structured in three acts and nine chapters, this transformative opera unfolds as a multimedia experience of music, dance, lighting, costume, poetry, and ritual. It is grand in scale and intimate in impact, inviting audiences on a visceral journey through the layers of human consciousness.

At its core, this opera seeks to chart the evolution of the human being—from spiritual origin through embodiment and social conditioning, toward liberation and relational encounter. The intention is to awaken, to remember, and to release—through collective experience.

Act One: Cosmic Birth
The first act explores the birth of the human being—not only as a biological event, but as a spiritual emergence.

• Chapter 1: The Lineage of Birth
  We are born not alone, but through lineages—of blood and spirit. This chapter recognizes our ancestral inheritance and the need to reconcile with the ghosts of the past, whose unresolved stories may haunt us unless honored and integrated.

  

• Chapter 2: Mammalian Body, Human Spirit
  Here, the opera explores our animal nature, grounding the human in mammalian embodiment. The transition from four-legged to two-legged movement becomes a metaphor for the rise of consciousness—our capacity to become upright, aware, and self-reflective.

• Chapter 3: The Crutches of Conditioning
  As we enter society, we form identities in response to its constraints. Protective behaviors—people-pleasing, arrogance, perfectionism—become crutches that both support and bind us. This chapter is a dance of unlearning, shedding these layers to move toward inner freedom.

Act Two: Morphosis Rise
A journey through love, loneliness, and spiritual awakening

In Morphosis Rise: This act explores the transformation that occurs when we open ourselves to love, confront our aloneness, and strive toward spiritual integrity. It traces the alchemical path from romantic illusion to spiritual clarity—from the entanglement of projection to the disciplined grace of compassionate presence. It is a rite of passage through the relational realm toward inner truth.

• Chapter 1: The Projection of Love
  This chapter begins in the intoxicating bloom of romantic love. But beneath the enchantment lies a deeper truth: we do not fall in love with the other, but with our own projections—our ideal of love, our unmet desires. In this chapter, a romantic dance unfolds between the performer and a stuffed pillow man, embodying the fantasy and the falsity of projection. The movement shifts from tender intimacy to wild, heretic release, culminating in a scream that pierces illusion and shatters the dream.

  

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  Chapter 2: The Loneliness of Self
  The scream gives way to a raw solitude—a relief from the entanglement of relationship, but also an unmasking of a deeper pain. The struggle of being with others mirrors the deeper struggle of being with oneself. This chapter confronts the primal trauma of separation—the illusion of aloneness that begins at birth. Bound to a chair, the performer dances in tension and resistance, expressing the anguish of abandonment and isolation. The scream returns, then softens into chant, signaling the beginning of a liberation from inner imprisonment.

  

• Chapter 3: One with the Cosmos
  The chant blossoms into a moment of spiritual expansion. From the solitude of suffering emerges a profound sense of oneness—with the universe, with divine awareness, with all that is. The performer channels this light through movement and voice, embodying the desire to share this awakening with others. Yet even this impulse—when grasped too tightly—risks becoming rigid, dogmatic. The dance becomes increasingly structured, eventually stiffened by judgment. It is only through the practice of loving boundaries—of the peace warrior—that this cycle can be broken. Here, a new form of strength emerges: one rooted in compassion, clarity, and a love that does not abandon the self.

Act Three: Prophecy
A journey through belonging, conflict, and the vision of a new era

In Prophecy, the opera enters its final arc: the collective. This act explores the human yearning for belonging—our deep, ancestral pull toward tribe and community—and the tensions, ruptures, and revelations that arise when identity is formed through group affiliation. It is both a reflection on the tribal instincts that bind and divide us, and a call toward a deeper, universal integration.

• Chapter 1: The Hunger for Home
  The act opens with the search for belonging—a movement toward tribe, toward the safety and affirmation of shared identity. Bodies seek one another, creating fleeting structures of community. Yet within this home-seeking arises friction, power dynamics, and the unraveling of cohesion. Attempts to form and protect a home begin to fracture the very unity they sought to create. After rupture comes a process of reconciliation, a slow integration where bodies begin to move together, not as one identity, but as a collective intelligence—fluid, interdependent, co-creating.

• Chapter 2: The Mirror of War
  From belonging emerges boundary—from "us" arises "them." The strength of one tribe becomes the justification for separation, for competition, for violence. This chapter reveals how the shadow of belonging is conflict, how our need to protect identity can birth cycles of war, fear, and othering. The performance holds the tension of this split—the pain of wounding others to preserve the illusion of safety, the grief of becoming what we once feared.

• Chapter 3: The Dual Prophecy
  In the final chapter, the opera moves beyond polarity. A prophecy is sung—two prophecies, coexisting like twin flames. One foresees the collapse of a world built on separation, domination, and fear. The other speaks of the birth of a new era—one of remembrance, of interbeing, of sacred unity. The performance closes in a ritual gesture of hope: not blind optimism, but a grounded vision that holds both endings and beginnings, death and birth, shadow and light.

Here is the final prophecy song

Orgins:

I had a vision in 2007 of men dance around a crater of earth, a great opera. I been holding this vision ever since as it appear to me in more and more detail. Below are some of my research and insperation.