a cloned chorus
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So…I haven't posted in a while because I've been working on an opera. Or…maybe I was thinking about writing an opera by watching various operas like Don Giovanni or The Rake's Progress or Tosca—which, by the way, I haven't seen the third act of the Met Live in HD rebroadcast due to a transmission error, so please don't tell me what happens. And yes, that sucked.
Or…maybe I haven't blogged because I haven't had time to brainstorm something new—and the rejection letters keep piling up.
You see, I don't want this to turn into a complete Composer FAIL Blog. Instead, I'll write about my opera chorus.
My opera takes place in the not-too-distant future where cosmetic cloning, the procedure of cloning a new-and-improved version of yourself, exists.* (I know, this screams science fiction.) According to my librettist, three-fourths of the resident doctors (the chorus) are clones. I've decided that all my cloned characters' voices should be vocoded, but I had the issue of dealing with the lone sopr…
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