Swan Songs is a new evening-length immersive operatic work commissioned by Contemporaneous, created by composer Ethan Braun and librettist Vikram Devasthali, which explores the melodramatic ending in opera, the "swan song." Absorbing all the famous endings of opera, Swan Songs follows both the story of music itself, and the legend of Ariadne escaping the labyrinth, as each try in their own way to flee from the inexorable "swan song." Developed from the ground up through Contemporaneous: IMAGINATION, Swan Songs will see its world premiere at Roulette Intermedium on March 15, 2023.