#operaplot 2010
Last year, Canadian music journo Marcia Adair (pka The Omniscient Mussel) launched a contest on Twitter that brought hordes of music nerds to the fore in pursuit of fame and prizes.
The contest, “#operaplot” for short, challenged Twitter users to summarize the plots of operas in 130 characters or less (140 characters, minus the hashtag “#operaplot”), and featured a celebrity judge (soprano Danielle DeNiese), who chose 5 winning entries from among 500+ submissions, including limericks (difficulty: 8-10), haikus, formulae, and straight prose.
The winners chose their prizes from among offerings put up by top opera companies around the world. One of the winners was yours truly, and thanks to the generosity of Lyric Opera Chicago, my girlfriend and I got to see L’Elisir d’Amore at the unfathomably beautiful Civic Opera House in Chicago, orchestra level, on the house. Wow.
Another winner, Stephen Llewellyn, of Portland, OR, used the top prize to give a deserving Washington, DC, public school music teacher an evening she’ll never forget.
So #operaplot is back, featuring another celebrity judge and a headlining prize pack that could take your breath away. I won’t steal Miss Mussel’s thunder, though—read about the unreal prizes here.
If you’re interested in entering for yourself, you’ll need:
(1) a Twitter account
(2) to check out the rules here, and
(3) to get your (maximum of 25) entries posted to Twitter by 11:59pm EST on Friday, April 30.
Let the games begin! (That was a lot of links in one post. Whew.)
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