Anyma has announced four final additional shows to his “The End of Genesys” residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere.
Matteo Milleri, who launched his Anyma project in 2021, will return to the venue on Feb. 27-28 and March 1-2. He staged the first run of his residency with eight nights at Sphere, starting on Dec. 27 and running through Jan. 11.
At his initial shows, which sold 130,000 tickets in the 20,000-capacity venue, Milleri blended concert, concept and cinema with a show that matched music from his pair of “Genesys” albums with cutting-edge visuals. He performed atop a custom quantum computer replica flanked by robot arms playing the cello on two adjacent glass pillars, and brought out guests including FKA Twigs, Ellie Goulding, Empire of the Sun and Grimes.
“I started this project basically to explore possibilities beyond what’s physical,” Milleri told Variety prior to the Sphere shows. “But I never had in mind to have it be dissociative, like in a VR. It was more about extended reality. It was not even meant to tour, initially. It was more meant to be digital art and music in an extended reality. But as soon as I saw this building coming to life, I realized that what I had envisioned for the project could potentially be expressed max-ready much sooner than I thought, because this is like being in extended reality.”
Tickets for the final four shows go on sale Jan. 30 at 9 a.m. PT, with $5 of each ticket sold going to the SoCal Fire Fund and the California Fire Foundation to help with fire relief in the Los Angeles area.
