I’m very curious what the result will be in 2012, but I like the idea. The Savolina Opera Festival of Finland is crowdsourcing an opera, launching the project Opera By You now, hoping the festival will be able to perform a fullblown opera writen by the public at the 2012 festival.
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The phenomenon is not new, invite people to take part in collaborative writing, the medium through which is. The Royal Opera House stared an online project on twitter. Right into their target group, because who is on twitter anyway? Of Course quality will vary, but everyday there is a round up, so that the libretto does not go in too many different directions. Nice experiment anyway. And with a lot of exposure so it seems. Excellent marketing!
Fragments will be performed at the Deloitteignite09 festival at ROH the first weekend of September
