“Xixoxa’s Spaceship: A Space Opera” premieres March 22 at an Oakland planetarium
Are you into music that’s really out there, as in, space? Oakland is holding a performance of a science-fiction opera that deals with love, loss and galactic colonization – and naturally, it’s taking place inside a planetarium.
“Xixoxa’s Spaceship: A Space Opera” is premiering March 22 at the Chabot Space and Science Center’s full-dome and state-of-the-art planetarium. Composed by Victoria Young, and produced by Opera on Tap, the story follows a young university student who leaves Earth after her father’s death on a doomed mission to Nebula X-3 – a “mysterious and mostly unknown region in distant space rumored to be the physical manifestation of human afterlife.” Along the way she meets Captain Samara, a Proxima Centauri spaceship pilot who offers solace, and becomes stranded in space before ultimately finding a possible road to redemption.
The opera features live singers and music, an electroacoustic score with surround-sound enhancement, and is accompanied by the planetarium’s wow-worthy HD images of space. If you’re not sold by all that – need we mention there’s an intergalactic cantina and space pirates?
Details: Doors open at 7 p.m. and show runs 7:30-9:30 p.m. March 22 at 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland; $25 for adults (18+), https://chabotspace.org/calendar/xixoxas-spaceship-a-space-opera