ABBA Voyage and the future of live performance

ABBA last performed in London in 1979. And yet, yesterday afternoon, I was in an East London arena watching them perform. Except they weren’t really there. ABBA Voyage is not a reunion tour. It’s a new form of live performance, built on a blend of digital production, physical staging, and carefully engineered illusion. Many reviews focus on the music and the spectacle, but that’s only part of the story. As a technologist, what makes ABBA Voyage notable is not that it recreates a band, but tha...