#Operaplot 2010: The Denouement
By Ralph Graves
When I blogged about the #Operaplot Twitter competition last week, I promised an update with a list of winners and how my entry fared. Music critic Marcia Adair hosts a yearly competition on Twitter, where the challange is to sum up an opera in 140 characters or less.
As always, many people responded with clever and creative entries. Five winners were chosen,and from that one — Sam Neuman — was selected at random to receive the top prize — Two tickets to Dublin’s Opera Theatre Company production of The Marriage of Figaro, along with flights and lodging for three nights.
Here’s his entry. See if you can guess the opera:
Father is less than enthusiastic about son’s love affair with aging, bankrupt, terminally ill prostitute. Can you believe it?
So how did I do? Better than I thought. I was one of the three runners up, for which I’ll be receiving — courtesy of Decca — a 44 CD set of Mozart’s complete operas. Next to the honor of placing “in the money,” though, the greatest thrill for me was a mention in Anne Midgette’s the Classical Beat.
It’s been a great week!
Be sure to check out all the winning entries at the Omniscient Mussel.
