Living Opera Pioneers decentralized grants through the Magic Mozart NFT Collection
WASHINGTON, 30 September 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Live Operaa web3 multimedia startup, announces the launch of Magical Mozarta collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) consisting of 1,791 NFTs based on the music and image of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his ground-breaking composition of The Magic Flute which premiered on September 30th1791. Each layer of NFT contains artistic features from The Magic Fluteas well as unique and personalized musical compositions from the first large-scale demonstration of generative music through a dice game called Muskalisches Dürfelspiel attributed to Mozart.
Living Opera presents Magic Mozart, a decentralized approach to grants in the arts
In addition to the unique digital art and music, NFT holders will gain access to several dimensions of benefit, such as first access to Living Opera music NFTs and a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to see Soula Parasidis and Norman Reinhardt – two of the founders – perform in Athens, Greece or Valencia, Spain in 2023, as well as a guest appearance in an upcoming documentary in Greece.
The funds will also contribute to the launch and maintenance of the Living Arts DAO, an ecosystem to decentralize grants in the performing arts and bring performers and lovers of classical music together to build and travel. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs for short, leverage smart contracts and distributed governance to perform tasks at scale, often among geographically dispersed communities united by a common goal.
“The way we have funded the arts, particularly in opera, over the last few decades has not changed much, but our research shows that individual artists have experienced wage stagnation and/or decline,” said the Canadian-Greek soprano and executive director of Living Opera Soula Parasidis. “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 continued.
Arts and culture philanthropists almost donated 24 billion dollars in 2021, but these donations rarely trickle down to the lives of individual artists. “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 reward artists and connect them to philanthropists, so that both sides grow and learn,” said Christos MakridisCOO of Living Opera.
Magic Mozart is the first of several NFT collections that Living Opera will launch, including: Dream girl – an NFT music collection based on Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder which takes listeners through an emotional journey that explores the fragility of love, the passage of time, and the highs and lows of human existence in just 20 minutes of heart-pounding music – and Divine – an NFT collection for fashion and music that celebrates the genius of the operatic sensation Maria Callas of 100th the anniversary of her birth in 2023.
The entire collection of Magic Mozart NFTs can be viewed and purchased at
About Live Opera
Founded by two opera singers and an economist, Living Opera is a multimedia art technology company that unites classical music and blockchain communities to produce transformative content. Living Opera takes a holistic approach to life, work and education: “to live” means “full of life and vigor,” and “opera” means (in Latin) “work, effort, attention or work.” Living Opera NFT collections, like Magic Mozart, are designed to bring the art and technology worlds together by expanding the audience of people who traditionally engage with classical music and the arts.
SOURCE Live Opera
