Monday, November 24, 2008

A Touch Obscure

When one hears word about a performance of a C.S. Lewis work adapted as an opera, first thoughts run to the Chronicles of Narnia, perhaps, or maybe one of the theological allegories like The Great Divorce. I would not have guessed Perelandra.

3 comments:

Elephantschild said...

Till We Have Faces would be a better opera.

But really, I can't imagine a old-school Anglican curmudgeon like Lewis going for an opera of any of his books. Yuck.

Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake said...

Yeah, which is why it's strange to see that he was involved in making it!

Elephantschild said...

Ok, as I read more, it's clear it's not going to be an Andrew Lloyd Weber schmaltz-fest, which is what I assumed at first.

But still.