By John Bailey
Opera glasses might be mere curios today, but Victorian Opera's latest offering puts a new spin on the old accessory.
Audiences at this month's production of The Flying Dutchman will be required to don 3D specs in order to appreciate what's being billed as the world's first full-length opera to make use of digital 3D technology.
The Victorian Opera will use world-first digital 3D technology in its production of "The Flying Dutchman".Credit: Martin Philbey
The spectral ship and roiling seas of Wagner's 19th century classic have been conjured by Deakin Motion.Lab and will fill the stage - if only virtually - of St Kilda's Palais Theatre, once a home of opera in Melbourne.
The cast includes German baritone Oskar Hillebrandt and soprano Lori Phillips. It plays from February 14 to 19.
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