Twitter has helped people get jobs, meet one another for coffee and now will reportedly help the Royal Opera House put on a show.
Composer Helen Porter is organizing public tweets into a liberetto that will be set to well-known opera tunes with new music, media sources report.
Avid tweeters who would still like to contribute to the opera can leave their tweets at #youropera. Currently, the story reportedly focuses on a talking cat and lovers who seem to be having a few issues.
Act one, scene one ends with one character, Hans, determined to find 'his true love.'
Two singers - one male, one female - will perform the work and it is currently set to be performed in early September.
While some feel that the project makes opera more accessible and less intimidating, Jeremy Pound, the deputy editor of BBC Music Magazine, views this event not as something novel, but rather a bit of a silly fad, according to the Telegraph.
'[The Royal Opera House] should be careful that it doesn't overtake the serious stuff they do,' he warns.
Composer Helen Porter is organizing public tweets into a liberetto that will be set to well-known opera tunes with new music, media sources report.
Avid tweeters who would still like to contribute to the opera can leave their tweets at #youropera. Currently, the story reportedly focuses on a talking cat and lovers who seem to be having a few issues.
Act one, scene one ends with one character, Hans, determined to find 'his true love.'
Two singers - one male, one female - will perform the work and it is currently set to be performed in early September.
While some feel that the project makes opera more accessible and less intimidating, Jeremy Pound, the deputy editor of BBC Music Magazine, views this event not as something novel, but rather a bit of a silly fad, according to the Telegraph.
'[The Royal Opera House] should be careful that it doesn't overtake the serious stuff they do,' he warns.
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