Collect
Bring your own used plastic from home and drop it into the Recycling Centre.
1st floor
How Operaverse works
Like Minecraft, but real
In a game you collect resources and build anything you want. Here you do it for real, and what you build becomes part of Chinese Street Opera.
Craft
Your plastic becomes a 3D printed character. Then head up to the dye farm, make your own paint and colour it in.
1st + 3rd floorBuild
Print your character. Make masks, props and costumes with artisans.
1st + 2nd floorPerform
Get your makeup done, rehearse, then step onto the Black Box stage.
1st + 2nd floorSell
Sell what you made at the Maker Market, then come back and build more.
1st floor
Who you'll meet
Young and old, making together
Operaverse brings kids, artisans and opera troupes into the same rooms, so the craft is passed on hand to hand.
Kids
Gen Alpha. You collect, build, dress up, perform and sell. This place is made for you.
Artisans
Mask, prop, headdress and costume makers who teach you their craft at the bench.
Opera troupes
Real performers who rehearse here, show you their makeup and share the stage with you.
Parents + visitors
Relax in the parents' lounge, eat at the café, watch a show and shop at the market.
What's on
Shows and workshops this week
Pick something you like, then tap the button to book your seat or your spot.
Book a seat
Save your seat in the Black Box
Three quick steps. Pick a show, pick a time, then tap the seats you want.
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Pick a show or workshop
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Pick a time
3
Tap your seats
Stageretractable · slides out for shows
Retractable seating · rows fold away on market days
How many kids are coming? Max 8 per booking.
Pick your seats to continue.
You're booked
Show
Date
Seats
Booking codeOPV-0000Show this at the door
Character Studio
Dress your opera character
Drag clothes, headdresses, face paint, weapons and props onto your character. You can also just tap them. This is a taste of what you'll make for real at Operaverse.
My Character
01
Build
Turn old plastic into your own opera character.
■ First floor
The Recycling Centre
Step 1 of 6Drop it in
Bring your own used plastic from home and drop it into the collection bins.
■ Second floor · behind the stage
The Mini Arcade
The mini arcade is a claw machine full of opera characters. Move the claw, press Grab and try your luck. Every figure is a real role from Chinese opera.
Try your luck
Your prize
Try your luck!
Use the arrows to move the claw over a character, then press Grab.
All the characters inside
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Empower
Make it for real, hands-on with artisans and opera troupes.
■ Second floor
Make it with real artisans
The whole second floor is for making. Learn the old way from an artisan, or jump into a workshop and build something new.
Watch→Try→Make your own→Take it home or sell it
Artisan Studios
Sit at the bench with a master maker and learn their craft, one step at a time.
Mask Studio
Shape and paint opera masks and face designs.
Prop Studio
Build stage swords, fans and spears that troupes really use.
Headdress Studio
Bead, wire and pom-pom the crowns and helmets.
Costume Studio
Sew robes and sleeves with cloth dyed in our rooftop farm.
Kids' Workshops
Drop-in sessions where you make your own things, fast and messy and fun.
Lantern Making
Fold, glue and light up your own lantern.
Prop Building
Build a prop from recycled parts and garden paint.
Garden Paint Lab
Paint with colours made from plants grown upstairs.
Material Lounge
Choose your filament, paints, cloth and bamboo before you start.
Makeup Studio
Sign up to learn opera makeup, and watch the troupes paint their faces before a show.
Music Studio
Drums, gongs and strings. Learn the beats that go with every opera move.
Mini Arcade
Behind the stage. Pick the character you want to print and play.
Parents' Lounge
Up on the mezzanine. Grown-ups relax with a view while the kids make.
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Perform
Bring what you made to life on the Black Box stage.
■ First floor · the big void
The Black Box changes shape
The heart of the building. The seats and the stage slide away, so the same room can be a theatre, a market or a rehearsal hall. Tap to change it.
Now showing
Show time
The stage slides out and the seats roll forward. Lights down, curtain up.
- Retractable stage out
- Retractable seats out
- Stage lights on
Makeup Studio→Music Studio→Rehearse→Perform!
04
Sustain
Grow your own colours on the roof, powered by the sun and the rain.
■ Third floor
The Urban Dye Farm
Grow indigo, turmeric, butterfly pea and other dye plants, harvest them, and turn them into real paint with an artisan. Every plant gives a different colour. Then take your colours back down to paint your 3D printed character and your masks and props.
In the farm
Plant
Push a seed into the soil. Indigo, turmeric and butterfly pea all love Singapore's warm weather.
- Plant paint
- Dyed cloth
- Costumes
- Masks
- Characters
What grows in the dye farm
Each plant hides a colour in a different part. Tap a plant to fill the vat in the Paint Lab.
■ The roof
A glass box roof that works
The third floor sits under a glass box roof covered in solar panels. The sun powers the building, and the rain is caught and used to water the farm.
Solar roofPanels on the glass box turn sunlight into power for the lights and machines.
Glass boxLets daylight pour into the farm so the plants can grow.
Rain catchGutters collect rain from the roof into a big tank.
Water reuseThe stored rain waters the dye farm. Nothing is wasted.
■ First floor
The Maker Market
Sell what you make. Kids and artisans sell their characters, masks, props and lanterns here, and the money helps keep the craft alive. It's a circle that never stops.
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Operaverse
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Operaverse
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- CollectKids bring their own used plastic.
- MakeThey become characters, props and costumes.
- PerformYour creations go on stage.
- SellThey are sold at the market.
- AgainMoney and leftovers go back into making more.
Building map
Explore all four floors
Tap a floor to see what's inside.
Why Operaverse
Keeping Chinese Street Opera alive
How can a youth performance arcade in Singapore help bring Chinese Street Opera back to life by getting Gen Alpha and local artisans making, performing and selling together?
Opera is not something to keep behind glass. Here, a generation that grew up on games gets the tools to play it, build it and carry it forward.
BuildTurn waste into characters.
EmpowerLearn and make with artisans and opera troupes.
PerformBring your creations to life on stage.
SustainGrow colours, reuse rain, run on the sun, keep heritage alive.