The Birth of Color, A Marriage of Darkness and Light is a frequency opera based on ancient and new scientific ideas and images about the Creation of the universe. The author of the piece, multi-disciplinary artist, Honora Foah is both a mythologist and a science enthusiast with an inspired interest in how we imagine the world and therefore how we act.

The Birth of Color is an hour-long performance piece for male and female chorus, singing bowls and percussion, with light and projection. Lucio Ivaldi is the composer, poet David Brendan Hopes is the lyricist. The projection designer is Nicola Vidali and Honora Foah is the author and director.

The story is narrated simply, almost as a basic myth, combining elements of physics, the ancient Indian Vedas, dark matter and dark energy, the evolution of the basic forces and Goethe’s color theory. The Creation is told as a love story, where the original oneness engenders longing and appreciation as it begins to split into all of the parts of the manifest world. The work is a reminder of the sheer beauty and wonder of creation and how the more we understand, the more mysterious and beautiful it becomes.