Cagliari: here is the new partnership between Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and CRS4

Cagliari: here is the new partnership between Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and CRS4.

The Teatro Lirico of Cagliari starts today a new and important partnership with the CRS4, Center for Research, Development and Higher Studies in Sardinia which will open the structure in via Sant'Alenixedda to broad and very different collaborations aimed at the organisation, implementation and management of specific activities aimed at promoting the image and the various peculiarities of the two important institutions.

After the lucky meeting last spring, with “L'Unione Editoriale” and with “Cagliari Calcio”, the CRS4 was also identified by the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari as an ideal partner due to its territorial relevance and the almost unique characteristics it possesses in the world of innovation and scientific research. Also in this case the objective is, through the happy union between art and innovation, a greater diffusion of musical culture and the reaching of a "new" audience, especially young people, to whom, in addition to the normal show included in the Season, concert, opera and ballet, as well as a series of parallel events, always of a cultural and social nature, such as presentations of books and records or small musical aperitifs.

The spaces that will welcome the public on these occasions are new or have a new destination and have had an important restyling in view of the role they will play: a "Media Factory", an area located on the ground floor and intended for meetings and collaborations between different cultural realities, and the "Al foyer" lounge area, an area of ​​the stalls foyer which, specially arranged, allows both the attentive season ticket holder and the curious passer-by to listen to music or leaf through a newspaper in a relaxed and engaging atmosphere. And it is precisely in the stalls foyer that an interesting installation has been positioned to highlight and inaugurate this new partnership: it is an interactive transparent surface that displays the contents through an innovative glass screen. Thanks to a technology called "proximity interaction", the user is able to interact with the surface by framing the QrCode on the screen to view its contents via their smartphone. With a few simple steps it is possible to explore videos and 3D models
offered by the application.

At the moment, an institutional video of CRS4 is visible in the installation which tells the story through images
the 30 years of the Center and a dozen 3D models of monuments, sites and locations in Sardinia, such as nuraghi, archaeological areas and churches.

Subsequently, the auditorium foyer will be enriched with other installations relating to virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The CRS4, Center for Research, Development and Higher Studies in Sardinia, was founded in Cagliari in 1990, by will of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, under the guidance of the Nobel Prize winner for physics Carlo Rubbia.

In 2003 it was located at the scientific and technological park of Pula (Cagliari), managed by the regional agency Sardegna Ricerche. Administered since July 2020 by prof. Giacomo Cao, the Center aims to study, develop and apply innovative solutions with a multidisciplinary approach, making use of highly specialized skills and knowledge.

Scientific research and technological development are the basis of activities that fall under three major themes, in which the CRS4 pursues excellence: artificial intelligence, management of large amounts of data, high performance computing and quantum computing, applied to the information society, energy and environment, biosciences, aerospace, visual computing, to computational infrastructures and smart city projects. «With the signing of the agreement between the CRS4 and the Teatro Lirico Foundation of Cagliari we will have the opportunity not only to make ourselves more and more known, using the spaces that will be made available, but also to contribute to the integration between art and innovation , using advanced technological approaches such as virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence"

(Giacomo Cao, sole director of CRS4) «I am particularly excited that, for the first time, the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari can join forces with CRS4, a prestigious scientific research centre, which I thank very much for sharing with us the intentions of a ever wider cultural diffusion, borrowed through the most advanced technology and innovation that this new partnership intends to enhance.» (Nicola Colabianchi, Superintendent of the Lyric Theater of Cagliari.