Oh, my poor neglected blog! Only two more weeks until we resume regular posting, folks! Until then, I will continue to spend 95% of my time in class, learning, teaching, and doing homework.
My long-standing Sunday afternoon tradition is to come home from church and pass out cold in my bed for a number of hours. Usually this is some of the deepest sleep I get all week (my brain continually refuses to shut off), but this time I actually woke up laughing: I had a dream that the folks from the show Castle were investigating a pair supposedly-unrelated homicides that turned out to be the Tosca aftermath. This has me thinking: can you not see that opera would make for some truly fantastic police procedurals? There are any number of WTF-inducing murders in opera (Canio, anyone?). Maybe I'm just a nerd, but this would never, ever get old.
So tell me, because I'm so busy and extremely stressed that I could use the laugh: which opera would you make into a police dramady? ("Dramady" because I like my cop shows to have a certain amount of laughs in them. Which is why I enjoy Castle so much.)
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So, you do know Die Fledermaus, right? Police procedural at its most hilariously inept! As you say, verismo opera is littered with corpses come to sticky ends. The guilty baritones who come to mind (Michele, Alfio) would probably confess with a certain amount of relish, however.
Coming this fall to ABC, well I'll think of a title later....
Elle, a young attractive American writer, finds herself working for her local police department, sorting out their unsolved cold case files with the help of Rocky, an older British forensic expert... among the cases they work on are
The murder of a young gypsy girl either by a military hero or a top sports star (Carmen)
The disappearance of a wealthy lothario playboyafter distraught messages from one of his many lovers (Don Giovanni)
A group of frat boys from the local university call on our heroes help when a sick girl named Mimi faints on their doorstep (la boheme)
They help a Japanese woman find her missing husband, Pinkerton, who disappeared five years earlier (Madame Butterfly)
trying to think of a few more (Aida, Tosca)- might be able to get a series out of this...
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