ossory

A shipwrecked Greek king just wants to go home, but the gods, a one-eyed monster, a witch, and a trio of singing rocks keep getting in the way. NOBODY sets Homer's Odyssey as a comic opera where grand bel canto collides with a sprinting big band and a wall of percussion — booming buffo villains, a smoky torch-song sorceress, and one very tired tenor. He wanted a chair, a dog, and his wife.

I15 Standalone Classical Crossover

NOBODY

Style

Grand Italian bel canto opera crossed with frantic big-band jazz over a huge percussion battery, spanning rubato recitative near 70 BPM through arias around 110 to jazz assaults up to 260 BPM, with an operatic tenor lead, a booming basso profondo villain, a smoky mezzo witch and a close-harmony swing vocal trio of sirens.

Tags

  • #opera
  • #comicopera
  • #belcanto
  • #operabuffo
  • #jazz
  • #bigband
  • #swing
  • #fastjazz
  • #percussion
  • #crossover
  • #odyssey
  • #homer
  • #greekmythology
  • #cyclops
  • #sirens
  • #comedy
  • #satire
  • #tenor
  • #musictheatre
  • #ossory