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Tensions hit high note over first Twitter opera claim

13 August 2009 | by Willem Reyners Tay Print this article Comments Share this article

Fancy writing an opera? The UK Royal Opera House wants you to try, inviting the 'Twitteratti' to submit their tweets to create the world's first opera constituted entirely of messages of 140 characters or less. The project is part of an

The project will use tweets directed at the @youropera account to create a story to be performed at an upcoming festival in September and is part of an effort to make the Opera seem less s You can follow the line-by-line progress on the Royal Opera House blog.

However YouTube user Cinemasolo has hit back at the Royal Opera's by posting  what he calls his 7th Twitter opera. Although Cinemasolo's efforts could be better described as Twitter sized.


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