So you get one of these hot show-runner guys to come up with a high-concept miniseries idea, with plenty of sex, violence, and intrigue, and then team him up with a modern classical composer, and they rework the show into a thirteen-episode OPERA. Think Breaking Bad with baritones...
-- smendler, Sep 27 2013

The Vampyre: A Soap Opera http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105724/
Sort of like this then? [DrBob, Sep 28 2013]

After all, a lot of classic operas HAVE lots of sex and violence and intrigue, right? Maybe just adapt one of those...
-- smendler, Sep 27 2013


soooo.... what you're suggesting is a long modern opera with intermissions, televised.

According to Wikipedia there are 4 major opera composers alive currently, which seems to indicate that

a) there are also a number of minor opera composers, and

b) operas are being composed.
-- FlyingToaster, Sep 27 2013


Also (c) that opera is not particularly popular.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 28 2013


The concept might not be too far off the mark, however; several successful long-running series have done musical or 'opera' episodes, including Joss Whedon's 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. A number of television actors and directors have come up through New York's musical theatre scene.
-- Alterother, Sep 28 2013


Cop Rock
-- tatterdemalion, Sep 28 2013


I was thinking that "Smash" was awfully similar to this.
-- jurist, Sep 29 2013



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