~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ Tags: Winter Opera Ira Almasy January 2 2010 January 2010 Read 228 times / 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. ~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ on February 07, 2013, 05:27:40 PM This is the official narration thread. Here you will be able to find out what is happening at the Opera House in real-time. Patron announcements, onstage drama and (of course) the post-intermission finale will be posted here.At this moment...It is currently 1800 hours and the esteemed guests are arriving at the Paul Hamlyn Hall. Drop by the bar for a touch of your favourite poison. If you have already gotten a drink, lounge about the floor and socialize with the uppercrust of wizarding society.If you would like to greet the organizers and patrons of the Winter Opera, you may find Ira Almasy on the floor. Enjoy! Skip to next post Re: ~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ Reply #1 on February 19, 2013, 01:58:09 PM At this moment...It is currently 1840 hours and nearly an hour until the curtains open. Guests may proceed to their respective boxes or continue to linger in the Hall. Picky about your fellow audience members? Now is the time to do something about it! Skip to next post Re: ~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ Reply #2 on March 23, 2013, 04:21:45 PM At this moment...It is currently 2140 hours and the performance is at its intermission. Guests may stay in their respective boxes if they wish to witness the reveal that will shortly occur onstage.General consensus is that the performance has been exquisitely designed but the plot thusfar predictable. The music is, as expected, elaborate and powerful. Those with active temperaments may be bored by the goings-on.The Opera Thusfar...The Opera is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, which revolves around King Leontes, ruler of Sicily. Naturally, the performance is sung in Italian.Suspicious of infidelity between his wife - Hermione - and the visiting King Polixenes of Bohemia, Leontes makes attempts to have his fellow king poisoned. This plan fails and Polixenes escapes from Sicily promptly. In his anger, Leontes chooses to imprison his pregnant wife. Our performance differs from the play when Queen Hermione gives birth to a son rather than a daughter. The boy is suspected to be Polixenes' illegitimate son; he is given the name Perdito and sent away to live an anonymous life on the coast of Bohemia, raised by Shepherds. The final act before intermission takes place 18 years later in the court of King Polixenes; he has been informed that his daughter - Princess Florizel - has fallen in love with a lowly shepherd boy. The act draws to an end with the King resolving to disguise himself as a peasant and travel to the coast, where he will seek out the shepherd boy who has secured his daughter's affections. Curtain close. Skip to next post Re: ~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ Reply #3 on April 08, 2013, 05:14:29 PM At this moment...It is currently 2150 hours and ten minutes away from the end of intermission. The theater lights still glare down at the audience, bright and golden. Those closest to the front can hear an abrupt scattering of footsteps backstage, followed by hurried exclamations. A thud. Without warning, the curtains begin to pull apart.They peel away to reveal a fully lit stage. Several of the cast are staring up at the ceiling and turn around, pale-faced, to the audience. Some spectators laugh at this folly. "Close it!" a voice offstage yells but it is too late.A loud crack cuts through the laughter and a row of bodies fall from above- not quite hitting the stage floor. The wide, aghast eyes of the Opera's principle performers stare back at the audience as the lynched corpses rocked by their necks like ripened fruit. Somebody screams.[1] 1. This could be anyone in the boxes or just assumed as someone in the Stalls. Skip to next post
~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ on February 07, 2013, 05:27:40 PM This is the official narration thread. Here you will be able to find out what is happening at the Opera House in real-time. Patron announcements, onstage drama and (of course) the post-intermission finale will be posted here.At this moment...It is currently 1800 hours and the esteemed guests are arriving at the Paul Hamlyn Hall. Drop by the bar for a touch of your favourite poison. If you have already gotten a drink, lounge about the floor and socialize with the uppercrust of wizarding society.If you would like to greet the organizers and patrons of the Winter Opera, you may find Ira Almasy on the floor. Enjoy! Skip to next post
Re: ~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ Reply #1 on February 19, 2013, 01:58:09 PM At this moment...It is currently 1840 hours and nearly an hour until the curtains open. Guests may proceed to their respective boxes or continue to linger in the Hall. Picky about your fellow audience members? Now is the time to do something about it! Skip to next post
Re: ~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ Reply #2 on March 23, 2013, 04:21:45 PM At this moment...It is currently 2140 hours and the performance is at its intermission. Guests may stay in their respective boxes if they wish to witness the reveal that will shortly occur onstage.General consensus is that the performance has been exquisitely designed but the plot thusfar predictable. The music is, as expected, elaborate and powerful. Those with active temperaments may be bored by the goings-on.The Opera Thusfar...The Opera is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, which revolves around King Leontes, ruler of Sicily. Naturally, the performance is sung in Italian.Suspicious of infidelity between his wife - Hermione - and the visiting King Polixenes of Bohemia, Leontes makes attempts to have his fellow king poisoned. This plan fails and Polixenes escapes from Sicily promptly. In his anger, Leontes chooses to imprison his pregnant wife. Our performance differs from the play when Queen Hermione gives birth to a son rather than a daughter. The boy is suspected to be Polixenes' illegitimate son; he is given the name Perdito and sent away to live an anonymous life on the coast of Bohemia, raised by Shepherds. The final act before intermission takes place 18 years later in the court of King Polixenes; he has been informed that his daughter - Princess Florizel - has fallen in love with a lowly shepherd boy. The act draws to an end with the King resolving to disguise himself as a peasant and travel to the coast, where he will seek out the shepherd boy who has secured his daughter's affections. Curtain close. Skip to next post
Re: ~* The Winter Opera 2010 *~ Reply #3 on April 08, 2013, 05:14:29 PM At this moment...It is currently 2150 hours and ten minutes away from the end of intermission. The theater lights still glare down at the audience, bright and golden. Those closest to the front can hear an abrupt scattering of footsteps backstage, followed by hurried exclamations. A thud. Without warning, the curtains begin to pull apart.They peel away to reveal a fully lit stage. Several of the cast are staring up at the ceiling and turn around, pale-faced, to the audience. Some spectators laugh at this folly. "Close it!" a voice offstage yells but it is too late.A loud crack cuts through the laughter and a row of bodies fall from above- not quite hitting the stage floor. The wide, aghast eyes of the Opera's principle performers stare back at the audience as the lynched corpses rocked by their necks like ripened fruit. Somebody screams.[1] 1. This could be anyone in the boxes or just assumed as someone in the Stalls. Skip to next post
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