CNN opera

English Etymology From the suggestion that such operas are essentially just a report from news channel CNN in musical form. en Q7174126 1995. Noun en mildly _ derogatory An opera about contemporary events. en 1995-04-10 w:Peter G. Davis Headline Muse New York Magazine 52 To understand the CNN opera, you have to go back to 1976, when the Robert Wilson/Philip Glass avant-garde extravaganza Einstein on the Beach — not a newsy opera, but a fact-based one — suddenly, surprisingly, filled the vast spaces of the Metropolitan Opera House 1 en 1997 Opera News What has been termed "CNN Opera" continues apace, probably on the theory that if operagoers can connect a work to history, they may either buy tickets to it or enjoy it more once in the theater. 1 en 2002 The New Music Connoisseur The leader sings lyrics like "I'm the leader of the free-love world" and "I believe in women's rights – they all have the right to be loved by me." The taste of CNN opera pervades the text, to be sure. en 2003 New York [The Death of Klinghoffer], the quintessential CNN opera, based on the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists, created a mild stir among those who perceived it as insufficiently hard on terrorism and more than a bit unfriendly to Jews. en 2013 Dominic Symonds Pamela Karantonis The Legacy of Opera.: Reading Music Theatre as Experience and Performance. Rodopi 9789401209502 25 Several years ago, at the world congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research in Amsterdam (2002) I gave a presentation on CNN operas in the course of which I parenthetically mentioned the phenomenon of television opera. en Musical genres Opera