Britain's prestigious Royal Opera House has launched a new bid to take high culture to the online masses by getting Twitter users to write the lyrics to a new work.
Britain's prestigious Royal Opera House has launched a new bid to take high culture to the online masses by getting Twitter users to write the lyrics to a new work.
But the experiment which it plans to stage with music next month is proving a challenge, with some distinctly oddball contributions and confusion over how exactly to put them together.
The Royal Opera House, launched the attempt last week, inviting users of the website to take the story forward in 140 characters.
So far it has completed Act 1, Scene 1, but the risks of crowdsourcing a work of art soon became apparent from the opening stanzas: "A small bird twitters over there, He sings without a single care, If only we could be so free, Without the worries and the...
"...concerns of a nihilist. I would bring you flowers, but they would die. I would love you, but, why?
The plan is to set excerpts from it to music, for performance in Covent Garden in September.
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