Everybody's favorite figure-skating scandal is getting new life - as a one-act opera. [via Anthony]
In a world where Jerry Springer can be immoralized in what sounds like a very funny full-length opera, this was only a matter of time.
Not all "classical" opera used to be high-brow, you know. Mozart wrote some stuff. Oh, yeah. People put him down for catering to the Springer fans of his day. But one era's vaudeville is another's high culture. Or in the Springer opera's case, at least, ironic vaudeville.
In either case: can this man's "bio-op" be far behind?
What a blast! Jerry does not interest me at all.
Posted by: BB | October 17, 2005 at 11:04 AM
I thought that "Dos Mujeres, Un Camino" was his opera?
Posted by: scupper | October 17, 2005 at 07:36 PM
Whoa!
Actually, I meant there would be an opera *about* him, not starring him. Eventually. Inevitably!
Posted by: pam | October 17, 2005 at 09:34 PM
I think he was moonlighting in the '80s as a truck driver and adapted his "hiatus" to a screenplay. I think it was his "opera". His next opera will probably be about a washed up TV Infomercial land scam personality on the run from all the people who trusted "Ponch". I can't wait. He should do a weekly podcast, kind of like the old radio shows of the 30s. Can you just imagine it? The Ponch-Radio Hour, with the sound of neighbor's kid reving his motorized skateboard in the background....His announcer/narrator can be the mechanic from CHIPS.
Posted by: scupper | October 17, 2005 at 10:10 PM