{"id":34836,"date":"2016-03-04T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=34836"},"modified":"2016-03-04T17:37:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:37:48","slug":"the-scoop-opera-de-montreal-to-stage-pink-floyd-opera-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2016\/03\/04\/the-scoop-opera-de-montreal-to-stage-pink-floyd-opera-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al To Stage Pink Floyd Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another Brick in the Wall – The Opera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al called a press conference at the Montreal Olympic Stadium. The curious location turned out to be a hint when Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters proceeded to confess that it was here on\u00a0July 6, 1977, that the idea for “The Wall” first occurred to him.<\/p>\n

Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al announced\u00a0that they would\u00a0stage the world premiere of the opera adaptation of Pink Floyd’s\u00a01979 album The Wall as part of the city\u2019s 375th anniversary. The news follows a trend first started by the Canadian Opera Company’s who in 2013,\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0the planned 2018 premiere of\u00a0Hadrian b<\/i>y Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright.<\/p>\n

OdeM’s 2016\/17 season will also include Verdi\u2019s Aida, Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni and Puccini\u2019s La Boh\u00e8me.<\/p>\n

Waters recounted the events that sparked the idea for The Wall happened during a concert for 80,000 unruly\u00a0and disinterested Montreal fans. In the middle of the set, David Gilmour had\u00a0had enough and walked off the stage. The crowd barely noticed. In a Rock & Roll moment, a kid climbed on the stage and Waters spat on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pissed off or disaffected because of a large number of people who, with all due respect to the population of Montreal, were drunk and not really paying much attention to what was going on onstage and some kid was scrambling up the front (of the stage) and I think that I spat at him. Who knows whether I did or not? I realized I was at the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing. And I needed to express that I didn\u2019t feel human, and we all want to feel human. My response to that was to write a show that involved building a huge wall between me and the people that I was trying to communicate with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waters followed up with The Wall, two years later in 1979, and the record became the best-selling of Pink Floyd’s career. Waters eventually left Pink Floyd in 1985 and has since toured The Wall around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, The Wall is about a journey from spitting in someone\u2019s face towards a position where love becomes more important, and our responsibility to those that share this planet with us becomes more important than our desire to engage in things that make us richer,\u201d said Waters.<\/p>\n

Another Brick in the Wall \u2014 The Opera will premiere on March 11 at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts and will run for just seven shows ending on March 24th. Waters has hired composer Julien Bilodeau\u00a0to pen the music, which will be conducted by Alain Trudel. The lead role (Pink) will be sung by Montreal-based Baritone \u00c9tienne Dupuis, backed by the Orchestre M\u00e9tropolitain.<\/p>\n

Tickets are now on sale for select dates at www.operademontreal.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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On Thursday, the Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al announced that to mark the city\u2019s 375th anniversary next year, it will stage the world premiere of Another Brick in the Wall, an opera based on Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5723,39,43],"tags":[5958,2498,5956,5957],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/pink-floyd-the-wall.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-93S","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34836"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34847,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34836\/revisions\/34847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34836"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}