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TAL ROSNER • VIDEO FOR LIVE PERFOMANCE

TAL ROSNER • VIDEO FOR LIVE PERFOMANCE

STRAVINSKY'S FIREBIRD WITH MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA // 25 + 26 SEPTEMBER //

STRAVINSKY'S FIREBIRD WITH MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA // 25 + 26 SEPTEMBER //

before and after nature

before and after nature is a multi-media stage collaboration with composer David Lang. Commissioned for Bang on a Can All-Stars and LA Master Chorale and premiered at Stanford Live in 2025, this continuously shifting video collage reconfigures geographic conventions to question when landscapes become subjective interpretations. Digital assemblages merge cosmic and domestic imagery—sunspots, oceans, clouds—layered, stretched, and abstracted into environments that prompt viewers to unlearn and relearn visual cues. Closely tied to the music, its pacing, transitions, and textures aim to make audiences feel and see the score. The work reflects on nature’s cyclical instability and immense inertia, embracing flux as a source of beauty.
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Music + Text: David Lang
Video + Lighting: Tal Rosner
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Selected performances: LA Disney Hall, Helsinki Festival, Ruhrtriennale (2025).

HUNGER GAMES ON STAGE

For the 2025 much anticipated production of the Hunger Games on Stage, Rosner created an immersive video world that shapes the production’s sense of scale, tension, and spectacle. His designs transform the stage into shifting environments—from the oppressive architecture of the Capitol to the volatile landscapes of the Arena—and supports the narrative momentum from Katniss’ perspective. Integrating 3D animation, live-feed manipulation, and graphic elements, the video amplifies themes of capitalism, surveillance and rebellion. Interwoven between action, choreography, and storytelling, it gives the production a dynamic, cinematic intensity.
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Directed by Matthew Dunster
Video Design: Tal Rosner

SF OPERA PRIDE CONCERT

For San Francisco Opera’s inaugural Pride Concert (2025), Rosner created a vibrant video environment that celebrated LGBTQ+ history, visibility, and artistic expression. His projections transformed the entire auditorium into a shifting tapestry of colour, archival references, and abstract textures that echoed Pride’s resilience, joy, and community. Integrated with orchestral and vocal performances, the imagery amplified emotional peaks and supported the programme’s diverse repertoire. The design unified celebration and reflection, offering audiences a visually immersive tribute to queer pride within a landmark operatic setting.
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Concept and Direction by Tal Rosner
San Francisco Chronicle Review

For the 2025 semi-staged performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall, Rosner created a site-specific video triptych that matched the work’s monumental scale and spiritual ambition. His projections unfolded as shifting cosmic and architectural imagery, echoing the symphony’s journey from choral intensity to transcendent lyricism. Working closely with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Ed Gardner, he presented a visual environment that heightened dramatic peaks and illuminated the score’s contrasting energies. The result offered audiences an multi-sensory, atmospheric interpretation of Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand.”
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Directed by Tom Morris
Video Artist: Tal Rosner
Telegraph 5* Review by Ivan Hewett

MAHLER 8TH at the royal festival hall

This production of Ainadamar reimagined Federico García Lorca’s life using Osvaldo Golijov’s cinematic score and Rosner’s layered video design. Filmed dance, live-action sequences, and animation evoked themes of memory, political violence, and artistic expression—blending flamenco influences with poetic symbolism to frame Lorca’s inner world. Developed across several major opera companies, the production created an dreamlike environment where set, sound, movement, and projected imagery deepened the opera’s emotional and ritualistic power.
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Directed by Deborah Colker
Video Design: Tal Rosner
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Selected performances: Scottish Opera (2023), the Metropolitan Opera (2024), LA Opera (2025).

AINADAMAR AT THE MET

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The 2023 UK premiere of Next to Normal offered an intimate portrayal of a family shaped by grief and mental illness. Centring on Diana Goodman, who lives with bipolar disorder, the production explores memory, loss, and resilience. Within the on-stage tapestry, Rosner’s video design presented a layered emotional landscape, using abstracted MRI and synapses scans as source material to reflect Diana’s fractured perceptions. Integrated with movement and lighting design, the visuals heightened the musical’s clarity and emotional immediacy, supporting a cast whose performances grounded the story’s vulnerability and humanity.
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Directed by Michael Longhurst
Video Design: Tal Rosner
Next to Normal on PBS Great Performances

For the V&A’s 2023 blockbuster exhibition DIVA, Rosner’s video design transformed the Fashion Gallery into a 360-degree panorama celebrating iconic performers. Projection-mapped across four domed alcoves, the “frieze-in-motion” animated historical and contemporary diva imagery. At set times, the alcoves shifted into “Takeover Moments,” featuring stars such as Freddie Mercury, Kate Bush, and Beyoncé within a celestial visual realm. Additional audiovisual elements explored ideas of power, creativity, and reinvention, creating an playful environment that framed the exhibition.
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Exhibition Curator: Kate Bailey
Video Design: Tal Rosner

DIVA AT THE V&A MUSEUM

COMMONWEALTH GAMES XXII
OPENING + CLOSING CEREMONIES

Rosner’s video design for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games shaped both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, creating expansive visual environments that unified music, choreography, and large-scale staging. Working with a large mix of local and national talent, he blended mythology, civic history, contemporary culture, and major musical performances—ranging from UB40 and Jorja Smith to a surprise appearance by Ozzy Osbourne. Through collage, animation, VFX, and filmed sequences, including underwater dance, he transformed the stadium into a kinetic theatrical canvas that amplified emotional impact and celebrated regional pride on a global scale.
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Directed by Iqbal Kahn / Tawbox
Video Design: Tal Rosner

MYTHOS AT STAATSOPER HANNOVER

MYTHOS brought together conductor Ari Rasilainen, the Lower Saxony State Orchestra, and Tal Rosner to illuminate Sibelius’ Tone Poems. The programme included En Saga, Night Ride and Sunrise, Scene with Cranes, The Swan of Tuonela, and vocal works Arioso and Luonnotar. Rosner’s visual interpretation, praised for its musical sensitivity, marked his first major full-evening length orchestral engagement. The performance blended orchestral colour and atmospheric video to create an ever-changing dialogue in which imagery and sound deepened each other's emotional and mythic resonance.
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Concept and Direction by Tal Rosner
Dramaturg: Swantje Köhnecke

This production of Wagner’s Die Walküre integrated an animated visual score which echoed shifting emotions, mythic forces, and Wagner’s expansive musical architecture. Abstract forms and symbolic imagery responded dynamically to the score, reflecting both character relationships and narrative environments. The contemporary staging used video as an active dramaturgical element, enhancing the opera’s psychological intensity and timeless resonance.
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Directed by Julia Burbach and Tal Rosner

DIE WALKÜRE in BORDEAUX

Rosner served as Director of Video on MARNIFESTO, a multi-city live-streamed project involving 47 models across ten global locations. Working closely with Marni’s creative director Francesco Risso, he shaped a visual structure that embraced the project’s logistical complexity. His approach highlighted the spontaneity of the shoot—street movement, found light, and the performers’ natural rhythms—turning dispersed footage into a cohesive, energetic fashion event.
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Directed by Babak Radboy
Video Direction: Tal Rosner
Marnifesto on AnOther Magazine

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SaLONEN WITH THE NY PHIL

For Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Foreign Bodies, Rosner created a set of hyper-synchronised video tableaux inspired by action painting and abstract expressionism. Animated textures, gestures, and manipulated live-feed footage of musicians formed a closed-loop system where sound and image were interdependent. Rooted in Salonen’s emphasis on the physicality of music, the visuals highlighted the piece’s rhythmic volatility and kinetic power. The result was a tightly choreographed audiovisual experience in which shifting projections intensified the orchestra’s energy and revealed the work’s playful, explosive character.
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Video Artist: Tal Rosner
NYT Critic’s Pick by Seth Colter Walls

8 Minutes at sadlers wells

8 Minutes explored humanity’s relationship with the sun through dance, science, and immersive video. Inspired by solar research from STFC RAL Space, Rosner’s videos created vast cosmic environments—solar surfaces, particles, luminous fields—that framed Alexander Whitley’s choreography and Daniel Wohl’s score. This unique three-way collaboration transformed the stage into an evolving universe, blending scientific imagery with emotional expression. The work invited audiences to consider cosmic scale, vulnerability, and interconnectedness through a shifting celestial landscape.
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Choreographer: Alexander Whitley
Video Artist: Tal Rosner
Evening Standard 4* Review by Lindsey Winship

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