Living Opera, a web3 multimedia startup, has announced the launch of Magic Mozart, a collection of 1,791 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on the music and image of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his groundbreaking work The Magic Flute, which premiered on September 30, 1791. Each layer of the NFT has elements of art from Mozart’s The Magic Flute as well as unique and personalized on-chain musical compositions from the first large-scale demonstration of generative music, a dice game called Muskalisches Würfelspiel that is thought to have been created by Mozart.
NFT holders will have access to more than just exclusive digital art and music. They will have first access to Living Opera music NFTs and a chance to win a free trip to see two of the founders perform in Athens, Greece or Valencia, Spain in 2023. One of the founders will also appear in a documentary that will be filmed in Greece.
The money will also help get the Living Arts DAO off the ground and keep it running. This is an ecosystem for decentralized grant-making in the performing arts that brings together classical music professionals and fans to build and travel. Decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs for short, use smart contracts and distributed governance to get large-scale tasks done, usually by groups of people in different parts of the world who are working toward the same goal.
Soula Parassidis, a Greek-Canadian soprano and the CEO of Living Opera, said that the way the arts, especially opera, are funded hasn’t changed much over the past few decades. But our research shows that the wages of individual artists have stayed the same or gone down. “NFTs provide a way for people to directly support the artists they love, and receive rewards, access to special content, and participate in global artistic communities via the blockchain,” she said.
Nearly $24 billion was given to arts and culture by philanthropists in 2021, but these gifts rarely reach individual artists. “Our DAO is a step in this direction,” said Christos Makridis, the chief operating officer of Living Opera. “We believe that blockchain can help bring transparency and accountability to arts philanthropy and our DAO is a step in that direction… our Living Arts DAO pilot among the Living Opera community opens a frontier of possibilities to remunerate artists and connect them with philanthropists so both sides grow and learn.”
Magic Living Opera will launch a number of NFT collections, starting with Mozart. Dream Girl, a music NFT collection based on Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder that takes listeners on an emotional journey that explores the fragility of love, the passing of time, and the highs and lows of human life in just 20 minutes of heart-pounding music, and Divina, a fashion and music NFT collection that pays homage to the genius of opera superstar Maria Callas, are both coming out this week.
Regarding Living Opera
Living Opera is a multidisciplinary art and technology company that combines the worlds of classical music and blockchain to make content that changes people’s lives. Two opera singers and an economist started it. “living” means “full of life and energy,” and “opera” means “labor, attention, or work” in Latin. Living Opera NFT collections like Magic Mozart are meant to bring the art and technology worlds together by making classical music and fine art more accessible to more people.
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