Our Mission

Immersion Repertory addresses contemporary social issues through innovative musical and theatrical programming. Immersion combines artistic ingenuity, philosophical questions derived from contemporary issues, and education. Immersion does this by blurring genre boundaries in its performances, drawing from such traditions as theatre, opera, concerts, and technology. Immersion integrates technology such as augmented reality into its performances in order to augment the narrative and highlight multiple perspectives. Therefore, performances are more than concerts, operas, or plays but rather they invite audiences and performers to immerse themselves in divergent ways of seeing and being.

We seek to re-imagine previously-performed work as well as commission and write new pieces.

Exciting News!

Immersion Repertory is one of the three winners of San Diego Opera: Opera Hack 3.0! Opera Hack is the first-of-its-kind gathering of artists, designers, and technology experts from around the world dedicated to the advancement of the art form of opera. Teams of artists, engineers, technologists, programmers, and technicians will gather here to collaborate and compete with proposals to meet challenges in the opera industry. The third Opera Hack brought participants from across the USA, and places as far-flung as Australia, England, Italy, Canada, Scotland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and beyond. Opera Hack panelists and participants are leaders in their fields, navigating new frontiers of interdisciplinary art and technology. This year’s Opera Hack is made possible by an Opera America Innovation Grant, supported by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.

Also featured in:

• Opera Wire

• Broadway World

• San Diego Union Tribune

We are part of the Baroque Reality Team. The Baroque Reality Team constructed an abridged version of the opera Alcina by George Friderich Händel that focuses on the opera's primary narrative, allowing technology to enhance the storytelling.

Throughout this production, Alcina will be told from a more nuanced, female-centric perspective. AR/MR will help the narrative take a deep dive into why these women might be on the island, who they are, and external forces that affect them.

The technology woven throughout the performance serves two purposes:

1. allowing the audience to see a virtual set with characters' backstories and additional story information presented visually;

2. using real-time tracking performers as avatars and body tracking technology, audiences will view the story from various characters' perspectives through devices. Weaving technology such as portable devices (tablets and phones) and UnReal Engine (a gaming platform) into Alcina allows us to explore an alternative narrative perspective throughout Händel's opera.