Invisible Cities: An Opera for Headphones Receives Emmy for KCET Documentary

Audio specialist Sennheiserannounced that Invisible Cities: An Opera for Headphones won an Emmy Award for Best Entertainment ProgrammingSaturday night during the 66th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards at The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood. Invisible Cities: An Opera for Headphones was commissioned by Sennheiser and produced by KCET, the leading independent public media organization serving Southern California, and The Industry, the L.A. based experimental opera company.

Invisible Cities: An Opera for Headphones [kcet.org/invisiblecities] was featured online and on-air last December in a multimedia series for KCET's arts and culture series, Artbound. The series provided an exclusive, in-depth look at the artistic and technological challenges that collaborators The Industry, L.A. Dance Project and Sennheiser faced in creating the world's first large scale opera for wireless headphones. Yuval Sharon, Founder and Artistic Director of The Industry, contacted Sennheiser in early 2013 to help make the wireless opera production become a reality.

"The documentary of Invisible Cities would have not been possible without the collaboration of Sennheiser and its pursuit of artistic innovation, and the experimental vision and framework created by The Industry," said Juan Devis, senior vice president, Content, Development & Production for KCETLink."We are proud and humbled to have been a partner in this endeavor and explore the limits of public television."

"Sennheiser is proud of to have commissioned KCET's fabulous production of Invisible Cities: An Opera for Headphones," commented Stefanie Reichert, director strategic marketing, Sennheiser. "Invisible Cities was the result of a visionary artistic collaboration among The Industry and L.A. Dance Project and Sennheiser, and KCET's subsequent production captured the very essence of how technology and cutting-edge artistic vision drives innovation in the arts."

Invisible Cities, written by Christopher Cerrone and based on the 1972 novel by Italo Calvino, took audience members on a multi-sensory journey through Los Angeles' Union Station, where they experienced an operatic narrative consisting of live dance performance, orchestral music and dramatic dialog: all driven by wireless headphone technology.

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