'The Tinder Opera' Creators Hope You Swipe Right On Online Opera
"Connection Lost: The Tinder Opera" is an 11-minute video dramatizing a young man's quest for love via the popular dating app. It marks an effort to adapt a 400-year-old art form to modern media.
by Naomi Lewin
Mar 28, 2017
2 minutes
The first opera hit the stage over 400 years ago. More recently, the art form has been adapted to modern media: In the 1920s and '30s, operas were written to be performed on the radio, and in 1951, NBC commissioned Gian Carlo Menotti to compose Amahl And The Night Visitors for television.
Now, a company called is creating operas for the internet.
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