Meltdown, is a new ballet opening in London about Britney Spears Friday February 1, 2008, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7218522.stm). It was created by Choreographer Hubert Essakow and Richard Thomas who wrote the music for the opera “Jerry Springer: the Opera”. The ballet follows the sad twisted decline of an American Pop star.
This is a wonderful example of how popular culture develops, an opera about an American television show known for it’s trashy topics about people exposing their worst experiences in public, becoming a first rate opera. A ballet now has been created about the disintegrating life of an out of control spoiled popular musical celebrity go from Mickey Mouse television star to tragic out of control train wreck mother losing children in front page divorce, who may not make it 30.
The Jerry Springer opera has had a success run in London and had a critically acclaimed two day run at Carnegie Hall, the ballet should be very good though we will see how successful it turns out to be!
This is a wonderful example of how popular culture develops, an opera about an American television show known for it’s trashy topics about people exposing their worst experiences in public, becoming a first rate opera. A ballet now has been created about the disintegrating life of an out of control spoiled popular musical celebrity go from Mickey Mouse television star to tragic out of control train wreck mother losing children in front page divorce, who may not make it 30.
The Jerry Springer opera has had a success run in London and had a critically acclaimed two day run at Carnegie Hall, the ballet should be very good though we will see how successful it turns out to be!
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