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The Royal Opera House is “commissioning” a libretto for a new “experimental” opera via their twitter account.
The Royal Opera House is to stage an opera created through social networking site Twitter.
Members of the public have been invited to submit their “tweets” online - messages of up to 140 characters - which will form the new libretto. The first scene of the as-yet-untitled work has already been completed and features a man who has been kidnapped by a group of birds. Excerpts will be performed at the Royal Opera House in September.
The opera will be set to original music by composer Helen Porter along with some more familiar opera tunes.
A very Cagean way to write opera, although the video in that linked story shows that traditional crowd-pleaser melodies will be used as well; I’m curious what the target audience is for such a thing.
It reminds me of a project undertaken at my elementary school some years after I left: in collaboration with musicians and writers, the students came up with the synopsis and some melodic lines for an opera, which, once written by the collaborators with student input, the students performed. Its title? Sergio the Magic Sweatshirt. The only line I remember is from when bully Sergio gets cursed into a sweatshirt: “We’ll see how you fend as a cotton/poly blend.”
