COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

Tolkien's Cover Designs for the First Edition of The Lord of the Rings (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I've been working on Libertaria: The Virtual Opera for almost two years. Right now the cast is finishing up recordings of the modern opera, and the animation team is getting ready to create the visuals for Libertaria using a combination of computer animation techniques. I have also started writing the novel form of Libertaria . Why a novel? Converting the modern opera into a riveting sci-fi novel floated around in my head considerably when I was writing down the notes for Libertaria in my handy journal. The idea behind the opera, of an orphan girl searching for her lost mother in a world where genetics has gone mad, was originally the notes for a novel that I will never complete. I developed the characters considerably since then. The character Libertaria has developed from an adult geneticist experimenting unknowingly on her mother to a young girl who escapes an evil gene...