![]() By bringing this historical figure to light, this opera demonstrates that there is a history of great scientists that are women. Charles Babbage was the eccentric inventor of the “Difference Engine”, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer, if he had ever finished it.Īda Lovelace was the first great genius to develop a programming language, and who is still not generally known. This comedic new opera features Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, the true-life unsung inventors of the first computer, in an alternative universe where they successfully use their new invention to “fight crime'“.Īda Lovelace was a mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is a new one-act opera by composer Elena Rueher and librettist Royce Vavrek, adapted from the a steampunk graphic novel written and drawn by Sydney Padua. ![]()
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