The project " NMPO " is a practice-based exploration of new interactive audio-visual technologies for opera and music-theatre, investigating the dramaturgical implications of combining the real and virtual within music-based theatre. The project uses live performance, voice-synthesizing and real-time sound and images projection to examine the phenomenon of technologically driven story telling, investigating new methods and means offered by specially developed new performance interfaces / instruments.

The project is part of a collaboration between the STEIM Centre in Amsterdam, the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at the University of Sussex (CROMT) , Forum Neues Musiktheater of Stuttgart Opera and Tempo Reale Studio in Florence, with each centre initially contributing a new piece of work made to the same brief but employing different technologies or programs.