Imagine a future in which you could live underground and escape the heat.
That's the premise of Seedlings, an opera created for young people in Ireland and premiering Friday at the National Opera House in Dublin, the Irish Times reports.
The opera is the result of a 10-year collaboration between Music Generation Wexford and the Wexford Festival Opera.
The idea for Seedlings came out of the group's youth opera workshops, which focused on creating a work that would appeal to young people in the area.
In this case, that work was a futuristic opera about a future underground community and its artificial intelligence, reports RTE.
Hannah Devereux, a student at Birmingham Conservatory of Music in the UK, plays the title character.
"It challenges the game of chance we are playing with nature and we are reminded that young people carry hearts in their future ambitions," says the director of Music Generation Wexford.
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