YUM!
Wen Liu, Sarah Théry
PREMIERE
20 August 2026 – 8.00 p.m.
Werkstattbühne
DURATION
approx. 60 minutes (no intermission)
INTRODUCTORY TALK
45 minutes before the performance starts
Werkstattbühne, Foyer
Free admission
About
YUM! is a dazzling and technologically advanced music-theatre experience that combines opera, performance art, and extended reality into a fully immersive spectacle. In a world grotesquely exaggerated and unsettlingly close at once, luxury and scarcity, beauty and decay, satire and reality collide.
Conceived by Studio M.A.R.S. based in Vienna, a young international collective with expertise in music, theatre, multimedia storytelling and immersive technologies, the project won the FEDORA Digital Prize 2025, which supports new paths of artistic expression in opera through digital innovation. The Bregenzer Festspiele provides Studio M.A.R.S. with a platform for the world premiere of YUM!
An experimental XR-music theater between delight and abyss
World premiere (2026)
Sung in English
Cast
Artistic concept, Director, Composer
Wen Liu
Stage Director
Benoît Bénichou
Stage Designer
Lisa Horvath
Dramaturge
Sarah Théry
XR concept advisor
Flavia Mazzanti
A work designed for five soloists and a string quartet
A production by Studio M.A.R.S.
FEDORA Digital Prize 2025
In cooperation with KEARNEY
With kind support from the Friends of the Bregenzer Festspiele