Stewart Copeland of the Police recently attended the American premiere of his fourth opera (a one-act setting of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” that opened at Covent Garden in 2011), and is working on his fifth. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters spent years writing and reworking the French Revolution epic “Ça Ira,” released as a recording in 2005 (with Bryn Terfel among the singers) and performed a couple of times since. A number of rock musicians have been trying their hands at opera. It’s based on the short play “The Ghost Sonata” by the 19th-century Swedish playwright and author August Strindberg, and, in a brief TV interview captured as he left a performance of Philip Glass’s new Walt Disney opera, “The Perfect American,” in June, Jones said he was halfway through the first act. He isn’t planning on going to operas, or listening to them. “2014 is full of opera for me at the moment,” Jones said. The iconic band’s bass player, John Paul Jones, scotched the most recent round of rumors about a possible reunion concert or tour next year. The above is from Act II: The Father of Death and encompasses a couple songs.Led Zeppelin fans found a new reason to dislike opera this year - if they cared enough about opera to dislike it in the first place. Prog Rock sounding kind of with some early heavy metal. More synth power ballads a-la Styx or Journey.Īct 1 - Mankind enslaved by the machines: Hard Rock with an almost industrial tone and high energy vocals to show the spark of revolution in Mega ManĪct III - We don't know the story yet as it's not out.

Something akin to Johnny Cash.Īct II - Part 2 is after the rise and new tech with a dark side. What's really great about the concept is how their music changes with the theme of the story and still maintains incredible consistency.Īct II - Part 1 is before the rise of the Machines and has a much more gritty and folk tone to it. Light to lead to the creation of Proto Man. It's an incredible story about revolution.Īct I is about Mega Man coming to understand who/what Proto Man was and the legacy left behind.Īct II is a prequel about the rise of the machines and Wily and what happened to Dr. Even as a 'Mega Man' rock opera it really re-invented it as its own beast.

The Protomen have been said, but I also can't recommend them enough to try.

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