I have put up an annotated script of my first opera, How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower) on my website. This includes mp3’s to all the hits, like The Wrinkler.
Here’s a synopsis I wrote up.
How to Look at the Ocean (Now I am a Flower) is a multimedia opera featuring bar bands and choruses, performance poetics and monologues, acoustic and electronic music, video and acting.
It is the story of a young songwriter, Scotty, learning his craft and trying to find his way to the top of the bar band circuit. Along his journey, he must come to terms with the demons inside of him: his guardian, Leviathan, his idol, Shades McGlenn, and his enemy, The Wrinkler. Will he overcome the pressures of being a young songwriter, or will he end up drunk at the same shady bar for the rest of his life?
Featuring video by Tyler Dorson and Will Field, writing by Michael Newton and Ted Quinlan, and music and writing by Zeke Virant, this opera-thing sure is a gas!
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