My 2010 #operaplot entries

Hoping for a trip to Ireland here. Will add more as I enter them…

1. #operaplot Poet&composer vie for 1 girl’s <3. Quills @10 paces? Nay. Vindication thru collaboration? Not even. Dinner’s an unsatisfying end.

2. #operaplot Poor maiden falls 4 no-good man? Pity her not: 2 aces in sock beat 1 up the sleeve. Damsel on horseback saves Dick, day. <3, FTW 

3. #operaplot A cool desert nite brings / men with boxes of valuable things / mom tries 2 steal / the cripple is healed / & Jerusalem-bound w the kings

4. #operaplot Rotten kid finds himself in PeeWee’s Bizarro Playhouse. Squirrel comes up gimpy in a brawl, & all’s forgiven. No place like home? 

5. #operaplot When a Philistine beauty finesses / mighty Samson, he dumbly confesses / the source of his strength / lies in his coiffure’s length / and the dame coldly hacks off his tresses.

6. #operaplot Teen w/ stepdaddy issues & pervy impulses dances for dad, lays first kiss on disembodied head of prophet. Prom will be a let-down.

7. #operaplot Wherein we learn Prince Hal / has this hedonistic pal / who chases and flirts / with a bevy of skirts / & it gets him dumped in the canal

8. #operaplot Amina’s town’s hallucination / and her fiancé’s hesitation / 2 remain involved / is finally solved / by the sight of her sleep-ambulation 

9. #operaplot ”Honey, is it me or did that clock just sneeze? That one, too? Wait, why are there 3 clocks in our bedroom? Oh COME ON!!” 

10. #operaplot Tonight@11: The heartbreaking tale of a local man whose world was turned upside-down by a Trojan clock. His wife: “Time had come” 

11. #operaplot Mom names son (Nero) emperor, Dad (emperor) returns w/new heir (Otho), tries 2 pawn courtesan off on N, O. Awkward holidays ensue

12. #operaplot Idealistic poets take note: apparently “I wish to end economic injustice” sounds a lot like “just go ahead and kill me” in french

13. #operaplot Kids get the nickel tour of the land of milk, honey, & Everlasting Gobstoppers. Li’l folk w/bad spray tans add creepy narration.

…aaaand these, which I submitted last year, as well, but don’t really like an awful lot.

14. #operaplot When a murder widely unknown / sends a monk 2 ascend Russia’s throne / he stages a coup / brings Marina in 2 / &Boris dies scared & alone

15. #operaplot This one’s all bells & whistles: Love’s for the birds. (& the Italians) Thank Isis (or is it Osiris?) for a sympathetic priest.

[answers after the jump]

Answers:

1. Capriccio (Strauss)

2. Fanciulla del West/Girl of the Golden West (Puccini)

3. Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)

4. L’Enfant et les Sortilèges/The Child and the Spells (Ravel)

5. Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns) (this one was entered in a slightly truncated format, but there’s not reason you can’t read it in its intended form)

6. Salome (Strauss)

7. Falstaff (Verdi)

8. La Sonnambula/The Sleepwalker (Bellini)

9. & 10. L’Heure Espagnol/The Spanish Hour (Ravel)

11. Agrippina (Handel)

12. Andréa Chenier (Giordano)

13. The Golden Ticket (Ash) [entry into American Lyric Theater’s side pot. Also, technically inaccurate, as Oompa-Loompas don’ appear in the opera, I don’t think. Alas.]

14. Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky)

15. Die Zauberflöte/The Magic Flute (Mozart)