Opera update: Now with actual news
It’s been a while since I’ve written here, not because I haven’t been working on stuff, but because I’m generally a lazy bastard and can only concentrate on one thing at a time.
The opera project is progressing very well – we have a theatre space, a name, and a final date! Fallen Voices: Three operas for two people will premiere September 24-26 at Bread and Circus, which is a small theatre in Kensington market, and which as an added bonus is part of a bar, so you can DRINK ALCOHOL while enjoying my masterpiece(s).
We have a final score for Milk and Honey (the Tammy Faye opera) and are approaching a final score for Electric Eel (the one about Edith Sitwell). We have a director and a PR person and a lighting designer.
I’m having a lot of fun learning puppetry Milk and Honey, and we’re slowly assembling the costumes and set pieces for all the operas. The biggest sticking point is finding the Tammy Faye wig. Most wigs you find in Toronto are either cheap costume wigs or are marketed towards Toronto’s African- and Carribean-Canadian communities. I think I need to find a wig store for old ladies. If there are any.
If I have a bit of free time this week I’ll make a little puppet video and post it.
That’s all for now…
