Dies Irae, Desirée explores cults, fanaticism, and how the internet fosters an emotional vacuum where extremists can plant, nourish and accelerate fringe belief systems.

Through a blend of satire, multimedia world-building, and a score that moves between ecstatic and unsettling, we are dramatizing a doomsday UFO cult that gathers again and again for a promised event: the night an alien civilization will carry the faithful to another galaxy.

The narrative unfolds in the fictional world of The Kinship, a UFO cult led by Desirée, a charismatic leader who claims to communicate with a cosmic emissary from the distant solar system of Elyrha. As the group anticipates their promised ascension to the planets of Elyrha, the chamber opera follows their journey through hope, faith, disillusionment, and public scorn, offering both a critique of the growing mainstream influence of conspiratorial thinking and a tragic-comic portrait of people seeking meaning in increasingly absurd ways.