E-Verse recently interviewed poet Katy Evans-Bush (“Opera is Deliciously Un-Dinosaur”), whose new book Me and the Dead
was published last month by Salt Press in Great Britain. Among the topics we covered was her wonderful poem about Dinosaur operas, inspired by a friend’s comment “it’s just a matter of time before someone does a dinosaur opera.” Well, here we go! A young opera star in Canada read the post on E-Verse and wrote in about not one . . . but two
known dinosaur operas in Canada alone:
How strange that I came accross this. I work with a small opera company in Canada and we just performed a dinosaur opera. The role of T-rex was indeed sung by a Tenor. I have a friend who performed in yet another dinosaur opera in Alberta earlier this year.
This pleases us enormously. Please write in or comment on this post if you know of any more dinosaur operas.
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This is indeed amazing news! Clearly my friend was right, and indeed prescient. I think it’s remarkable, to boot, the way the dinosaur opera company whose singer features in your picture has made their “double-blind” costumes, to look like humans, trying to look like dinosaurs…
Whatever next! I await more.
I’m trying, myself, to think of a way to follow up the Dino Opera. Maybe a Pterodactyl’s Lament. In dactyls, of course.