This project has an air of inevitability to it, but London's Royal Opera House will perform an opera using Twitter contributions for the libretto. Here is a snippet of the AP story:
"In an effort to get more people involved with opera, which sometimes
suffers from an elitist, highbrow reputation, London's world-famous
Royal Opera House is turning away — temporarily — from classic talents
like Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini and giving the composer's pen
to ... just about anybody.
All you need to contribute is a
computer or a mobile phone and an account on Twitter, the popular
micro-blogging site that is open to all."
Read all of the Associated Press story.
Random assortment of contributions to date:
"Nuts, i love hazelnuts." Bang! The bird dropped from the sky, dead, its tiny wings were frozen."
"concerns of a nihilist. I would bring you flowers, but they would die. I would love you, but, why?"
"Still in park. Her, shivering with coffee: I’m so cold- let’s leave Boston. Him: Anywhere! Around the world India, then Egypt!"
"but the distance between us is psychological – not physical or intellectual. And what’s happened toooooo the ginger cat?"
"forget! forget! the natives won’t forget! Lovers, mysterious in the mosquito net!!"
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Visit the Royal Opera House on Twitter (is that close to Covent Garden?)
Royal Opera House web site
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