And now for something completely different! According to BBC NEWS:
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.
Now for some, this is a great way of engaging more people in Opera (assuming the libretto comes out well). For others, they may say: well, the libretto doesn’t count for much anyway! Either way you look at it, it promises to be a novel and innovative way of connecting opera with…well, everyone.
Go to the BBC article for more info.
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