Music News ! Courtney Love Is Now an Opera Singer ! Hole singer lands lead role in upcoming pop opera Kansas City Choir Boy. Instead of finishing her memoir, Courtney Love has discovered a new pastime: Opera singing. The Hole singer has been cast as one of the lead roles in the upcoming pop opera Kansas City Choir Boy, which will run 10 performances during New Yorks Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now Festival from January 8th to 17th. Love seems to have fully embraced the role of opera diva. I love the concept, and Im loving the music, Love said of the show. Im playing it constantly. Im looking to do things that are different. I just finished a rock tour of Australia, and it was great, but I’ve been doing that for a long time. I wanted to do something challenging. Composer Todd Almond created the music for the opera and talked to the New York Times about his surprise casting of Love in the lead role. Ive always been fascinated with her, Almond told the Times ArtsBeat. I love her voice, and I think shes a great actress. And I thought she would find the character interesting. Almond will also play the male lead in Kansas City Choir Boy, which is described as a theatricalized concept album about explosive young love tested by cruel fate, told in a series of mysterious flashbacks on the shows Prototype listing. (At press time, Love isnt mentioned anywhere on the Kansas City Choir Boy listing, where it says the opera is performed simply by Todd Almond and Ensemble.) Anyone hoping to witness Love hit some glass-shattering notes should be warned, however, that Almond says his hour-long show more closely mirrors a concept album than an actual opera. When I say opera, I don’t mean its in an operatic style, Almond said. I mean it in the sense that its a group of songs that tell a story. I write musicals, I write plays and I write what I call opera. So future performances of The Marriage of Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera arent likely in Loves future (but a Hole reunion might be). Courtney Love
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 04:22:56 +0000
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