This article is from the SF references in music List FAQ, by Rich Kulawiec rsk@gsp.org with numerous contributions by others.
George Coates has a new work that takes place in virtual reality at
a theater in San Francisco. I don't know the name or composer, sorry.
For what it's worth I'm not sure I'd eliminate Wagner too soon: the
Ring may seem pretty fantastic, but many of the plots turn on the
appropriate use of technology (always Promethean, of course) and the
power it confers on the user.
Or sf novels with opera themes? How about Jack Vance's _Space
Opera_? As I recall the plot, it concerns the adventures of an
interstellar opera company.
Much thanks to:
alves@calvin.usc.edu@usc.edu (William Alves)
arb@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Barb Miller)
chrisi@lloyd.Camex.COM (Chris Ischay)
diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott)
etxmtsb@solsta.ericsson.se (Mats Bengtsson TX/DK )
gal@bnr.ca (Gene Lavergne)
gower@cis.uab.edu (Mr. Gower)
haack@iscsvax.uni.edu
hedrick@dumas.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
jefrank@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jason E Frank)
jkp@ukc.ac.uk (J.K.Pearson)
kaf8f@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Keith Andrew Falconer)
kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Bob Kosovsky)
lms@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Max Stern 310-524-6152)
mgresham%dscatl.UUCP@mathcs.emory.edu (Mark Gresham)
pdelafos@dsd.es.com (Peter Delafosse)
pranata@watserv.ucr.edu
rob@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk (Robert Marshall)
rp04@Lehigh.EDU (R M Price)
rtut@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Raymond Tuttle)
rwilmer@zinka.mitre.org (R. Wilmer)
steve@fid.morgan.com (Steve Apter)
zornow@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Claudia Zornow)
(end included material on SF themes in opera)
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