When 3D animation meets opera – fantastic video

According to origo.hu, mezzo-soprano opera singer Mónika Kertész’s and video clip director Dezső Gyarmati’s fantastic video came to life from the marriage of classical music and digital solutions. The famous Dido’s Lament aria in the video is dramatized with 3D statues.

Dido’s Lament aria is from Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas opera. This is performed by Mónika Kertész with the Accord Quartet. Her beautiful voice is complemented by a unique visual world designed by the senior of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Dezső Gyarmati.

Mónika Kertész has sung as a soloist in Müpa, the Great Hall of the Academy of Music and even in the Budapest Music Centre. Two years ago she performed in the National Theatre of Szeged’s Cinderella, while she spent the last season with the Hungarian Radio’s Symphonic Band. The singer told origo.hu some background information about the fantastic video.

How did it all start?

It’s been a dream of mine to create something like this for a long time. My main goal was to bring classical music closer to young people and to those who are not familiar with the world of operas. I thought that modern cinematics and classical music could be a good pairing. I wanted to achieve this in a way that both genres enhanced each other. I wanted a small movie which builds on the storyline instead of the aria. At first I thought about having actors in the video but due to the deadline and the financial limits, animation seemed to be the best choice.

How did the creating process go?

We talked a lot from the beginning, to find the best execution. For instance, it was Dezső’s idea to visualise the characters as statues. The final result is basically the paraphrase of a statue. The video goes around in a statue hall. Everything else that is moving symbolises the feelings of the two main characters, Dido and Aeneas. The ill-wisher witches and doubt is symbolised by an interestingly rippling globe. These feelings lead to the suicide of the main character.