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Re: A Night at the (Lego) Opera
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Fri, 12 May 2000 08:22:29 GMT
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Lorbaat <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in message FuEDn0.1FB@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.general, Mario Ferrari writes:
> > Last Saturday, May 6 2000, I had the great pleasure to be present at the
> > premiére of the LEGO Opera, on stage at Teatro Nuovo in Verona, Italy.
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> <snip>
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> > I'll be glad to provide more details if there's any interest.
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> Yes, please! I am very envious of you. Nothing that cool is done here • near
> Boston. :P
Well, I'll do my best to render the atmosphere, hope my English is enough.
As the author said, the opera was structured in 24 scenes called "bricks".
In the very front part of the stage there was the actress, surrounded
everywhere by bricks. There where both standard size bricks and super giant
2x2 and 2x4 bricks (the 2x4 were roughly 10x20in). The actress started the
first "brick" of the opera telling the beginning of the story of the Lego
factory in 1932, and from then on she sometime had her turn again, another
"brick", and continued the story, supported by a soft background from the
orchestra. While not on her turn, she was playing with the bricks on the
stage, building amazing structures.
The main part of the stage featured a stair right in the middle, with the
orchestra split on the two sides. The jazz trio was located on the highest
part of the stage, rear left. All the performers usually came in from rear
right and came down the stairs to the front stage, just before the bricks
area.
The jazz trio started just after the first actress playing some classic
style jazz. From then on they had their own "bricks" from time to time,
always playing original compositions in the jazz style of the period the
story was in.
The soprano sang pretty original but classic opera-styled parts. But the
lyrics...:-) (see below)
The vocal trio, well they where *so* good, performed singing and dancing in
the style of the best Broadway musicals.
The pop singer ranged from Sinatra to Elvis styled songs.
The orchestra supported the soprano, the actress, the vocal trio and the pop
singer, and play some music only bricks. The orchestra personnell wore
plastic hats that were actually giant Lego studs, alternating different
colors.
The lyrics of all the songs where simply incredible. Filled with puns,
double meanings, chained words, references to the Lego world in a very
original way. They talked of trains, airports, buildings etc. Sometime you
realized just at the very end of the text it was describing a Lego thing,
like for the train that you discover is blue with red wheels.
What I found mostly amazing were the parallel threads that happened on the
background of the leading part. Some examples: while the actress told of the
first fire in the factory, the bass player of the jazz trio was shaking red
fabric to represent fire. While the vocal trio was singing supported by the
jazz trio, the orchestra personnell were swapping their Lego hats, or the
pop singer was showing muscles body-builder style. And many many other funny
things. Even the conductor danced with his score holder :-)
A great experience. When the opera finished we all thought it had been too
short.
Mario
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