On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:15:29PM -1000, david wrote: > On 04/03/2014 09:58 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:26:25PM -1000, david wrote: > >>Who knows, maybe 300-400 years from know, today's rock operas will be high > >>opera! Complete with the fat lady singing and scholarly musicologists > >>writing dissertations on the use of pinball machines as musical > >>instruments... > > > >Ummm, it has already been done! Tommy. :) > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who's_Tommy > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfZQLXs72Lo > > Thanks, only that's a musical, not an opera. ;-) It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't Tommy continuously musical with no (or very minimal) spoken dialogue, thereby making it an opera as distinct from a musical which would have spoken dialogue interspersed with songs sung by the cast? -- Gordonjcp MM0YEQ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
