We sometimes forget that “multimedia” does not begin and end with the digital. Oral culture was multimedia. We see the remnants in theater, performance art, and opera today. Take a look at this preview of the Lincoln Center Festival presentation of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten opera. Unlike most performances in which the audience remains in a fixed position, the audience in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory move with the performers.
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