NEW ORLEANS – You could call it instant opera: A New Orleans nonprofit will create and perform a pair of opera scenes with only two days to get from page to stage.
New Fangled Opera calls it Opera Presto — in musical terms, "Opera really, really, fast."
Organization co-founder Chris Burton says two composers and two writers learned Thursday who's working with whom. They got the day to come up with a scene and songs to show it.
Seven singers and two directors get their scores by 9 a.m. Friday. They'll have rapid-fire rehearsals to learn the songs and devise the staging by performance time: 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the University of New Orleans.
Burton and his wife, Shelley Burton, created New Fangled Opera in 2012.
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Online: http://www.newfangledopera.org/2015-opera-presto-project/
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