I became a fabulous opera: I saw that all beings are fated for happiness: activity is not life, but a way of wasting strength, an enervation. Morality is a weakness of the brain. To every being, I felt, several other lives seemed due. This gentleman knows not what he does, he’s an angel.” - Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (1873) Here, in the building where Georges Bizet wrote his masterpiece Carmen in 1875, Matt Copson premieres a bildungsroman opera in three laser-projected parts: Age of Coming, Coming of Age and Of Coming Age. His opera tells the story of a baby at odds with a vengeful god, who tries to convince him that life is miserable and cruel, and nothing more. It’s not a good thing, however, to be too aware of everything wrong in the world, to be told every day there’s no future, and the baby rebels, and seeks to overturn this authority figure; to kill god, and become a creator himself.