Comments on: Twitter Opera Plot Results

By: Miss Mussel

Miss Mussel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:59:37 +0000

Welcome to the OM AMP!

The Twitter Opera Synopsis Contest will be returning, so you’ll have to be sure to enter it then.

Best,
Miss M

By: AMP

AMP — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:04:40 +0000

Here’s one for Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk District:

K hates Z, Z goes away. A wants book, K&A make love. B sees, K poisons B. Z returns. K&A kill Z. Drunkard reveals crime. K&A arrested @wedding. off to siberia. K pushes A in river, K jumps in herself.

By: patty

patty — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:31:44 +0000

Very fun! I wrote a poem once for Boheme:

Mimi gets her bonnet back
And still she dies
Now what’s with that?

You make me want to play around some more with this stuff.

By: YTT

YTT — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:49:02 +0000

Re: orphans
@ogiovetti – All ignore the prostitute until she can help them. She sleeps with Prussian army for safe passage. All ignore the prostitute.

I believe this is Steven Hartke’s The Greater Good.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:42:47 +0000

Got it–what’s filed as Lucia di Lammermoor is really Ernani.

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:32:48 +0000

@ogiovetti – All ignore the prostitute until she can help them. She sleeps with Prussian army for safe passage. All ignore the prostitute.

This must be Stephen Hartke’s The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif.

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007/07/hartkes-greater-good.html

By: Olivia

Olivia — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:53:36 +0000

“All ignore the prostitute until she can help them. She sleeps with Prussian army for safe passage. All ignore the prostitute.”

That one’s The Greater Good.

Also, I don’t think that the Lucia synopsis is really Lucia…but I can’t place which opera it’s from. Lucia is about a brother/priest, a tenor, and the soprano caught between them all.

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:53:10 +0000

This one was meant to be Strauss’ Elektra (remember how Clitemnestra has all of those magic rings?)

@s_haskins – Beaten by mother, father replaced. Fatherâ€™s murder avenged? Wait, brotherâ€™s not dead! No magic rings stop him. Death to mom!

By: higgis

higgis — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:45:21 +0000

Ah, you didn’t miss the Tristan one, but attributed it to The Ring:

@urbanophile – You ruined my life. Hey, letâ€™s drink this. Weâ€™re in love. Ecstasy! Shit, weâ€™re busted. Ok, letâ€™s just die together.

By: Miss Mussel

Miss Mussel — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:42:06 +0000

@higgis – thanks for helping me give the orphans a home. Hopefully they’re all sorted now.