“It’s a week before the American premiere of ‘Another Brick in the Wall,’ … Roger Waters’ rock opera turned real opera” by the Cincinnati Opera at Music Hall, writes Madeline Mitchell in Friday’s 7/13) Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio). “On an elevated platform at the center of the rehearsal stage, there is an electric guitar, keyboard and drum set. But you won’t hear those instruments because ‘Another Brick’ is not a rock opera. Instead, the show is played throughout by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra…. The show has all of the words and some of the same melodic themes of the original album, ‘The Wall,’ but has the feel, sound and grandeur of your typical opera. The story centers around a rock singer, Pink, who has lost touch with reality and is spending time at a mental health clinic. At the clinic, Pink travels through time and space to relive major moments in his life. Conducting the orchestra is Alain Trudel, who worked … on the original production at the Montreal Opera [where] most of the audience was made up of nontraditional operagoers…. The opera … consists of eight principal singers, 51 chorus members, 20 supers, two children, 234 costumes and 64 orchestral musicians.”
Posted July 17, 2018
Pictured: The Cincinnati Opera will perform “Another Brick in the Wall,” the opera based on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” beginning on July 20. Photo: Yves Renaud/Opera de Montreal
