The Turing Opera

In the 1980’s, Thomas Meyer commenced working on an opera about Alan Turing. While it was eventually abandoned in the early ’90s, Meyer completed the libretto, a work that Anne Midgette describes in her introduction of The Turing Opera as “[sitting] at the intersection of science and poetry. Parts of its text simulate computer generation: chains of words spun out in every possible permutation, their meanings and sounds overlapping the way lines of music might overlap. And yet what comes across is not mechanical, but lyrical.” For over 30 years, this stunning work remained shelved. Hiding Press has the honor of presenting, for the first time anywhere, Thomas Meyer’s The Turing Opera.