Here's Your Chance to Help Write An Opera!!!!

[Mme. Hermine]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32372083/ns/te...ch_and_gadgets/

[Ray]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32372083/ns/te...ch_and_gadgets/

"My tiny hand is frozen from so much tweeting" (or maybe just "Your tweeting hand is frozen")

Gianni Squeaky (that's really bad, sorry)

And, over at NYCB, "Libestweeter"

[Mme. Hermine]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32372083/ns/te...ch_and_gadgets/

"My tiny hand is frozen from so much tweeting"

Gianni Squeaky (that's really bad, sorry)

not bad at all, i think it's hysterical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cubanmiamiboy]

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[cubanmiamiboy]

[cubanmiamiboy]

[Mme. Hermine]

a midsummer night's tweet................she said, ducking...

[dirac]

The plot that is taking shape is surreal and, at the same time, very dramatic, she said.

"At the end of act 1, scene 1, our hero had been kidnapped by a flock of birds and is in a tower awaiting rescue," Duthie said. "That feels extremely operatic, people are really getting into the story line."

There is also a talking cat.

Move over, Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Thanks for posting, Mme. Hermine.

[Hans]

Another article regarding this subject, but with an interesting suggestion at the end: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/l...icle6792646.ece

Anyone for a Twitter-style update of the Ring Cycle?

[dirac]

Just wondering if anyone made a contribution.

[Helene]

Here is a review from The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ml?hpid=artslot

But "Twitterdammerung: The Twitter Opera" was not skewered by critics, which came as a surprise to many (including the critics).

The opera was "actually watchable, listenable and rather funny," wrote the Daily Telegraph's opera critic, Igor Toronyi-Lalic. One couldn't escape the fact that it was a gimmick, he said, "but as cheap gimmicks go, this was a good 'un."

[Mel Johnson]

This project reminds me of Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera, and its parody companion from the Hoffnung Concerts, "Let's Fake an Opera, or the Tales of Hoffnung."

[PeggyR]

Here is a review from The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ml?hpid=artslot

But "Twitterdammerung: The Twitter Opera" was not skewered by critics, which came as a surprise to many (including the critics).

The opera was "actually watchable, listenable and rather funny," wrote the Daily Telegraph's opera critic, Igor Toronyi-Lalic. One couldn't escape the fact that it was a gimmick, he said, "but as cheap gimmicks go, this was a good 'un."

For some (me, anyway), the idea of somebody Twittering his/her every stray thought or visit to the dentist to a cast of thousands is the end of the world as we know it.