Hello, and welcome to the Royal Opera House blog. Unfortunately, we’ve not been very good at blogging in the past, but we’ve just started a new project that we’re very excited about, and which we hope will breathe some new life into this old blog.
We’re working with the
Twitterverse to create the storyline for a brand new opera, which will be performed throughout the weekend of Deloitte Ignite (4, 5, 6 September 2009). We’re investigating how short, 140-character contributions can build upon each other to create a non-linear narrative – like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Consequences. Our mysterious opera director will be regularly blogging here with updates on the story, and as well as offering his thoughts on how the story can combine with some music and acting and marvellous singing to become a finished piece.Our Twitter Opera experiment starts on 3 August 2009. If you would like to contribute, then you can tweet your line of the story to @youropera or visit www.twitter.com/youropera. The story starts like this:
One morning, very early, a man and a woman were standing, arm-in-arm, in London’s Covent Garden. The man turned to the woman and he sang…
*update* As of Monday 9 August at about 1pm BST, this is what our slightly crazy story looks like:
In brief, at the end of Act One, Scene One, William is languishing in a tower, having been kidnapped by a group of birds who are anxious for revenge after he has killed one of their number. Hans has promised to rescue him. The Woman With No Name is off to her biochemistry laboratory to make a potion to let people speak to the birds.
If you are into twitter and the opera both or perhaps just curious about some of the creative ways people are using twitter to interact with their audience (or potential audience) then you should give this a read.