Comic Book Operas
While doing a Google search for news of Art Spegielman and Philip Johnston's Comic Book Opera, Drawn to Death: A Three Panel Opera, I came across this:4. Comic Book Opera - This MAP performance task requires students to view an opera and create a comic book representing the opera along with a letter explaining the process and reasoning used in creating their book.
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What a wonderful project. Granted, P. Craig Russell's (I really need to read his Salome) been doing this for, well, decades. But this seems like the sort of curriculum addition that Neil Cohn would approve.
Other Music/Comics Related Links
- The Carbon Copy Building: A Comic Book Opera a collaborative multimedia piece by Ben Katchor and New York based new music ensemble, Bang on a Can (1999).
- "How to take Opera From Stage to Stage (and Make Comics out of Classics)" by P. Craig Russell, University of Cincinnati Horizons Online, June 2002.
- It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! the broadway musical by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse (1966).
posted by Jon Silpayamanant @ 8:20 PM
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