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The Prophecies is an immersive and interactive micro-opera for soprano and electronics. The one-to-one concept of the opera allows individual visitors to pose questions to a fictive and theatrically presented singing oracle who responds with personalized prophecies that are generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in realtime and set to a prepared musical pattern.

This AI-based opera was conceived as an elaboration of the prototype The Oracle, which was conceptualized, prepared and documented in an earlier research project by the creators. The independent opera company Operation Opera produced and presented The Prophecies publicly in Halmstad 14–15 October 2023 with support from Region Halland and Halmstads kommun, and in cooperation with HFAB. An additional presentation was thereafter also arranged and hosted by the festival LudoKonst at PlayLab in Skövde 28 October 2023.

The Prophecies is an AI-based chamber opera with interactive features in which the visitors are immersed in a ritualistic and temple-like setting where they can meet a singing oracle who instead of appearing to be connected to ancient divinities receives messages from the digital realm. The underlying theme of the opera is the eternal human search for guidance and our hope for help from external and mythological forces. Through the work, a playful approach to the subject is suggested while the concept also makes room for critical reflection on the topic and the exposed mechanisms of human nature. Developed from the creators' earlier work with the prototypical opera The Oracle, the concept design encompasses elaborated verbal, audial, and visual material, including an AI-agent trained to respond in the style of the Delphic oracle while still being compatible with the contemporary music composition at hand. By offering personalized prophecies to each individual visitor facing the oracle alone through the dynamics achieved by human-machine interaction, articulate subjective experiences are made possible through the opera.