I’d venture to guess it’s part of a wider cultural trend. It’s probably generally easier to pitch/sell the concept of a bio-opera (to some extent a more known property even than an adaptation of a play/novel). But I’m just guessing there. I’d very much rather there weren’t so many bio-operas. As I said, I tend not to like them, though I did enjoy this one. (I do suspect that generally, I’m kinder to new opera than others, such as, say, Maestro Will)
It's a well-known fact that Maestro Will is a perfectly neutral and objective observer, widely respected on all sides. In the contemporary opera space, he simply calls balls and strikes.
Haven’t yet listened to the NTT (hopefully I’ll remember to do so later), but I couldn’t wait to note that I cackled loudly at each step of that ChatGPT interaction. From the reinvention of John Cage to that glorious normie conclusion, this was utter perfection.
All of the bio-operas are so weird to me. Why is this a recent requirement for new opera? (Has this been a topic on CGF recently?)
I’d venture to guess it’s part of a wider cultural trend. It’s probably generally easier to pitch/sell the concept of a bio-opera (to some extent a more known property even than an adaptation of a play/novel). But I’m just guessing there. I’d very much rather there weren’t so many bio-operas. As I said, I tend not to like them, though I did enjoy this one. (I do suspect that generally, I’m kinder to new opera than others, such as, say, Maestro Will)
It's a well-known fact that Maestro Will is a perfectly neutral and objective observer, widely respected on all sides. In the contemporary opera space, he simply calls balls and strikes.
Haven’t yet listened to the NTT (hopefully I’ll remember to do so later), but I couldn’t wait to note that I cackled loudly at each step of that ChatGPT interaction. From the reinvention of John Cage to that glorious normie conclusion, this was utter perfection.