One of the first vids of a performance (or is it a rehearsal?) on youtube - video/audio quality is crap. Perhaps they'll be better as time goes on ...
A review:
I wasn't holding out much hope for Twitterdammerung: the Twitter Opera. The dubious pun in the title didn't help. And I'd passed my eye over the few extracts that the Royal Opera House had offered up with pride as a preview, and the word 'cod' doesn't really do it justice: "It is a curious story – hear my tale,/Although my name was never Ishmael."
Yikes. Add to this only three days of rehearsal and not much more time for the musical composition, and you might understand why I brought a big, baggy jumper deliberately to hide my head for the moment when I died of empathetic embarrassment.
But the jumper proved of no value, as what unfolded before me was actually not that bad at all. I mean actually watchable, listenable and rather funny. Don't get me wrong; madness and messiness, in the main, did dictate the tone.
You had a duck of destiny, a bird-infatuated nihilist, a falsetto-singing ginger cat called Tobermory and gratuitous references to Deloitte the sponsors, all of which tumbled along in the foyer – note: not the main stage – with little rhyme or reason.
Sounds ... amusing ...
