Description

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Though not nominated, the studio recording of A Roadkill Opera got the creative team invited to the GRAMMYs, which they attended in February 2015. Which led to the January 2016 world premiere, fully staged performances (with sold-out houses) at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint in Washington DC. Which led to performances by the Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia (SONOVA) at the James Lee Community Theater in Falls Church, Virginia, in October 2016. This comic opera with music in the style of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is recommended for fans of PDQ Bach, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Tom Lehrer, and The Rutles-but only if you like classical music with infectious hooks. Cool merchandise including album art, sheet music, and CDs of the studio recording that got them to the GRAMMYs are available-the perfect holiday gifts for the person who has (almost) everything A Roadkill Opera is a mashup of classical music and a classic backstage screwball comedy. During the hour before the lights go up on opening night for a comedy improv troupe in 1988 Jackson Hole, Wyoming--the Roadkill On A Stick Frozen Foods Theatre Company--they find out their showroom at the Silver Dollar Bar is being torn down. Hilarity ensues. This original story and English libretto by Parker is set to music by Ferdinando Paer, Beethoven's direct competition. Free, hilarious videos--including lyric videos and karaoke videos--are at roadkillopera.com.

About the Author

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Stephan Alexander Parker - Librettist - worked as a bus driver, whitewater rafting guide, front desk clerk, technical writer, research manager, and light and sound man in Nashville, Branson, Chicago, Orlando, Jackson Hole, New Jersey, and Washington DC. He now lives in the old railroad town of Gaithersburg, Maryland, with photographer DJ Choupin. He is currently working on The Annotated Roadkill Opera. Or his show business memoir, I Rode With Ben Johnson. No, probably the opera thing.