Courtney Love Cast As Opera Singer For “Kansas City Choir Boy”

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Courtney Love has been cast as the star of Todd Almond’s “Kansas City Choir Boy”, an experimental opera that will premiere at Prototype Festival at the Manhattan Arts Center from January 8 to 17. According to the New York Times, productions at the Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now festival “seek ways to erode the boundaries between opera and pop”. 

Todd Almond said he’s always been “fascinated” with Love’s voice and “thought she would find the character interesting”, while Love said that she loves the music and concept of Almond’s production.

Speaking to the Times, Love said:

“I’m playing it constantly. I’m looking to do things that are different. I just finished a rock tour of Australia, and it was great, but I’ve been doing that for a long time. I wanted to do something challenging.”

Almond later said of the play and of opera:

“It became a piece about a man and a woman in love in the Midwest, but then the woman sees something on the horizon that makes her realize that she has a greater destiny, and she follows that.”

“When I say ‘opera’, I don’t mean it’s in an operatic style. I mean it in the sense that it’s a group of songs that tell a story. I write musicals, I write plays and I write what I call opera, which I think of as a form that opens the minds of both the performers and the listeners.”

Read our interview with Courtney Love here.

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