← Productions · Premiere 2025 · Teatro Colón
OOO

“The old world is dead.” With humanity absent, the present is suspended: nature remembers, objects make themselves noticed, a defective artificial intelligence is of no help. OOO is also a haunted opera — a world inhabited by remnants of technology, nature and popular memory, where the figure of Dalida returns as a recurring presence: her songs and spectral trace bind the work's thought to a collective emotional memory. Through the dialogue between a houseplant and a bot that cannot imagine, OOO unfolds as a succession of audiovisual rituals: an opera without humans, a ritual for the world after. Created and directed by Emma Terno and Valentín Pelisch.
OOO is not only about objects, artificial intelligence and post-human futures: it is also a work about memory, disappearance and what survives. Dalida returns as one of the ghosts haunting the stage — a popular voice whose songs keep circulating long after the woman who carried them was erased. Through her, the opera asks what remains of a human presence once the bodies are gone: refrains, images, a shared emotion — what the collective imagination keeps when everything else fades.
Production
A post-human operatic environment.
Transmission ↗
Workshops on object-instruments and post-human dramaturgy — making matter and sound sing.
Partnerships & territory
A bridge between Buenos Aires and Lyon, taken on international tour.






Details
- GenrePost-human & haunted opera
- PresencesDalida · objects · nature · AI
- Creation & directionEmma Terno · Valentín Pelisch
- PremiereCETC — Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Sept. 2025
- ProductionGRAME — CNCM (Lyon) · CETC — Teatro Colón
- International diffusionSTOPERA!
Credits
- Creation & direction — Emma Terno · Valentín Pelisch
- Performers — Manuel Atwell · Emma Terno
Technical sheet
- Baritone saxCarolina Cervetto
- ViolaMariano Malamud
- CelloJuan Ignacio Ferrera
- Bass clarinetLautaro Abrego
- TheorboLaura Fainstein
- LightingAdrián Grimozzi
- Technical assistantMagdalena Picco
- Costume designBelén Parra · Florencia Fiori
Production & diffusion
Premiered at the Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires) in September 2025, OOO was born from a cooperation between GRAME — Centre National de Création Musicale (Lyon) and the CETC. STOPERA! carries its development and international diffusion.
Connections
Press
« OOO invokes Dalida, the mythical singer, in a succession of audiovisual rituals where ghosts sing old melodies. »Página/12 — Inevitables
« The opera that imagines a world without humans astonishes at the Teatro Colón's experimentation centre. »Infobae
« Experimental opera: the dialogue between plants and artificial intelligence. »Clarín
Watch & listen
World premiere at the CETC — Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), 2–10 September 2025. Developed in residency at GRAME (Lyon). Photos: Lucía Rivero. Trailer above.