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Opera Being Composed On Twitter

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the how-to-jump-the-shark dept.

musefrog writes "The BBC is reporting that the UK's 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.' I'm personally looking forward to lots of idiotic net memes and inane emo ramblings being trilled out by aging sopranos."

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  1. CATcerto by truthsearch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This story reminded me of this.

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    1. Re:CATcerto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      On a relevant note, the Twitter opera reminds me of A Million Penguins, a wiki-based project in which anyone could contribute to the aptly-titled book. It occurred over the span of a few months, and as expected, it was a pretty dismal failure literature-wise (a fascinating experiment, nonetheless).

      Vandalism was one of the reasons why "A Million Penguins" didn't do well, so maybe this Twitter opera will work better with good moderation.

      Both are reflections on the 1% Rule, it seems...

  2. Re:Well... by FlyingBishop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How is that worse? The mediocrity that is Twitter will only produce mediocre opera.

    YouTube comments, much like Sarah Palin's speeches, have the capacity to be truly inspiring in the hands of the right performer.