Vox Lumina

The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation supports the premiere of Vox Lumina, a new intermedia opera and installation by Bay Area composer and performer Theresa Wong, created during her 2024–25 Guggenheim Fellowship. Presented as both a concert and an “exploded opera” installation, the project combines sculpture, video, visual media, and music.

Drawing on Wong’s experience as a queer Chinese American, the work considers how cultural and gender frameworks shape identity. The hour-long performance brings together extended vocal techniques, alternative tunings, and chamber and choral writing, featuring Del Sol String Quartet, Radiance Vocal Ensemble, Roco Córdova, Haruka Fujii, and Wong on cello and voice.

A further installation version at the Asian Art Museum will unfold as a series of “installed songs,” each occupying its own physical and sonic space. These include Everybody Nose, a community-based project addressing racial bias through sculptural castings, and Hold On and On, an aria and video work focused on the dynamics of hand holding in queer or interracial relationships.

Further information:
otherminds.org

Dates

January 23 (premiere) & 24, 2027
Brava Theater, San Francisco