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	Rock opera
		A rock opera is a musical piece in the form of an opera or a musical in a modern rock and roll style rather than more traditional forms.
		It differs from conventional rock and roll music, which is often a song that is unlinked in plot or story with other songs, but overlaps considerably with concept album or rock musical.
		The distinction may be that the rock opera tells a story and a concept album sets a mood, but some albums tell moody stories and others tell stories about moods.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Rock_opera.html (191 words)

	Rock Buddha Rock: Official Site
		Rock Buddha Rock is perhaps the first effort to interpret the story of the Buddha through the lens of contemporary rock and folk music.
		Rock Buddha Rock draws upon different Buddhist traditions to tell it's story-------the poetry of Zen Buddhism, the practical nature of the Vipassana insight tradition, and the Tibetan emphasis on compassion for others.
		Rock Buddha Rock was produced in a small studio outside of Boston over a two year period.
	www.rockbuddharock.net (328 words)

	IngentaConnect Rock Opera - Opera on the Rocks?
		This paper provides possible definitions of the term 'rock opera' and places the genre in its musical, historical, and socio-cultural and -political context.
		Parts 1 and 2 are concerned with defining the genre and briefly discussing its main works, pointing out similar traits and characteristics of individual rock operas on both the textual/content and the musical levels.
		The study further highlights the most important mechanisms at work in both the creative process of writing and performing a rock opera and its reception by critics and the public.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/rodopi/wms/2002/00000004/00000001/art00019 (167 words)

	plug <> Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
		Not by telling you that it is a two-disc opus of 20 songs that cover 30 years worth of roots rock/alt country/southern rock, exploring the history of the south through the prism of Lynyrd Skynyrd, one of the most influential rock bands of all time.
		Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama, over the course of a year or two, "Southern Rock Opera" was mostly finished over a year and a half ago, but due to various small delays, it wasn't released until the summer of 2002 (Rolling Stone actually reviewed it several months before then).
		I'm not a Skynyrd fan, and southern rock is not something that takes up a lot of space in my CD collection, but I am from the south, and of the south; I would not be who I am if I hadn't grown up in the south.
	www.bluecricket.com /plug/reviews/2002/drivebyopera.html (727 words)

	Rock Opera - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An example of rock opera is Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) by British composer Andrew Lloyd...
		Rock Music : use as theme of film or theater : rock operas and musicals: Tommy
		Rock Music : use as theme of film or theater : rock operas and musicals: Scene from Hair
	encarta.msn.com /Rock_Opera.html (140 words)

	Greet Machine: The Best Rock Operas
		A rock opera or rock musical is a musical production in the form of an opera or a musical in a modern rock and roll style rather than more traditional forms.
		It differs from conventional rock and roll music, which is often a song that is unlinked in plot or story with other songs, but overlaps considerably with concept album, song cycle, or rock musical.
		While it is a very tight rock opera in terms of songs and story line, the story is merely a vehicle for the wonderful music that drives the entire album.
	blog.lib.umn.edu /snackeru/greet/2005/08/30/the_best_rock_operas.html (1479 words)

	Rock Opera is a Smash - Arts & Entertainment
		"Opera" is an obvious buzzword to any opera fan, but when "opera" is in the band's title, the fan is left to wonder if the music is even operatic.
		Rock and opera have met many times in the late 20th century, especially during the eighties when artists were experimenting, and new technology was introduced.
		The same energy, drama, intensity and raw human expression opera reflects can also be found in rock music; thus the band's choice in using rock to interpret opera with a modern edge is a no brainier.
	www.pacepress.org /news/2005/09/28/ArtsEntertainment/Rock-Opera.Is.A.Smash-1002330.shtml (484 words)

	Mossadegh - A New Rock Opera
		Mossadegh is the true story of the coup orchestrated by the C.I.A. in 1953 that installed the Shah of Iran.
		Driven by an infectious power-pop score, this 45-minute piece is entirely performed by the members of a four-piece rock band and features a wide variety of characters from this pivotal moment in American foreign policy.
		"Rock fans, history buffs, and conspiracy theorists will have to agree that this heavy metal retelling of the 1953 CIA coup that deposed the sitting president of Iran is pretty frickin cool."
	www.michaelminn.net /mossadegh/index.html (127 words)

	Milwaukee Rock Theatre - Performing the rock opera and rock musicals
		Milwaukee Rock Theatre - Performing the rock opera and rock musicals
		The objectives of the Milwaukee Rock Theatre are varied.
		To embrace those individuals who have a passion for rock operas and rock musicals
	www.rocktheatre.org (128 words)

	Opera News > The Met Opera Guild
		Last spring, I was attending Susannah at the Metropolitan Opera House, seconds away from the moment in the opera that we all wait for: Susannah's "The trees on the mountain."
		With their preternaturally high ranges and blend of vocal and visceral androgyny, both countertenor and rock star excite the ear and arouse the senses.
		But while rock fans are quick to ride opera's coattails (think of The Who's rock opera, Tommy, or the goat-bleat falsetto of Queen's Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody"), operaphiles are generally loath to explore the province of pop.
	www.metoperafamily.org /operanews/world/metal.aspx (1037 words)

	Rockopera.am ::: The End ::: PREFACE
		Christianity, immortality of soul, human sins and trespasses, historical injustices, love and purification - these topics are the ideological basis of the opera.
		The duration is 85 minutes consisting of recordings of 12 characters and a choir singing in the original language, rock and folk instruments and an orchestra.
		A film is envisaged based on this rock opera, âThe Endâ.
	rockopera.am /endpref.html (204 words)

	Boston Rock Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Boston Rock Opera is undergoing a re-organization and does not have any shows planned for this winter.
		While we're on hiatus, we will also be re-thinking this website and plan to add back some of the community features that made it the rock opera resource for many years.
		Boston Rock Opera is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting original adaptations of classic rock opera, conceptual rock and new works.
	www.rockopera.com (124 words)

	PawneeCountyHistory -- Table Rock Opera House
		Table Rock is situated in the northeastern part of Pawnee County, eight miles from Pawnee City, the seat of the government, at the junction of the A & N and Republican Valley divisions of the B & M RR.
		Or the enlarged opera house might have been completed anytime after September, 1894, to before November, 1895, because no city newspapers are available for this period, and checks of newspapers in neighboring cities give no hint of what was happening at the Table Rock opera house.
		The Table Rock Herald, advertised as the only Populist paper in the county, was published from 1893 to 1894, and its columns carried several references to the construction of the opera house, although no change in its physical appearance is ever noted.
	www.pawneecountyhistory.com /yesteryear/tropera.html (11368 words)

	Les Fradkin - Reality - The Rock Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This album is advertised as a rock opera, but rock can be found only osccasionally, pop would be a lot closer.
		Les's preference for electronic instruments is quite apparent, coming across in all his use of them (although there's a Mellotron MK II rumoured to be present on the album).
		Some of the stuff might have been okay in the mid eighties when this sort of electronic sound was at times used in pop rock, but now it sounds dated at best.
	www.cs.uu.nl /people/jur/reviews/reality-therockopera.html (346 words)

	AD/BC: A Rock Opera (2004) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was only the other day I had nothing to do so I decided to find a video and that is when I came across a 'Mock Rock Opera' which, I had recorded a year ago during Christmas on BBC Four.
		The Rock Opera was called 'AD/BC: A Rock Opera.' Being a huge fan of rock operas especially the father of all 'Jesus Christ Superstar', Matt Berry's spoof was a delight to watch again.
		In conclusion I would strongly recommend for any other rock opera or musical theatre fans to watch this just because it is so funny and still a great piece of music theatre.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0440004 (499 words)

	Introduction - Japanese Rock Opera Hamlet
		What I find most remarkable is that rock music, usually supposed to express the defiance of the younger generation, here helps consolidation of Shakespeare's authority as the representative of universality.
		By the end of this rock opera the Gravedigger is no longer the Fool but a deus ex machina dominating the stage.
		Even in radical adaptations such as Bob Carlton's rock musicals, in which Ariel was a robot in a spaceship and King Duncan an Elvis look-alike star, one can still rely on the audience's knowledge of the original to use their 'favourite quotations'.
	sia.stanford.edu /japan/INTRO/ROCKHAML.HTM (3357 words)

	Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (Album Review)
		Southern Rock isn’t pretty, and nowhere is this more evident than in the music of the Athens, Georgia-based Dixie rockers Drive-By Truckers.
		Throughout Southern Rock Opera, Drive-By Truckers takes its lyrical writing to the next level, and the three-guitar assault employed in its songs perfectly captures the sound of 1970s Southern arena rock without ever sounding derivative or mocking.
		Nevertheless, there are enough great moments contained on Southern Rock Opera that with a little programming of one’s CD player, it’s possible to reveal a masterpiece.
	www.musicbox-online.com /dbt-sro.html (619 words)

	Tommy (rock opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The opera was composed by Who guitarist Pete Townshend, with two tracks contributed by Who bassist John Entwistle and one fictitiously attributed to Who drummer Keith Moon, though actually written by Townshend.
		Although Tommy is conventionally described as a rock opera, author and Who historian Richard Barnes points out that this definition is not strictly correct, since Tommy does not utilise the classic operatic formulae of staging, scenery, acting and recitative.
		In the rock opera episode of the MTV cartoon series Clone High, a good deal of the music sounds very similar to songs from Tommy (such as JFK's "Touch me, hold me, sign my cast for me"), and some themes are present from Pink Floyd's The Wall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommy_(rock_opera) (4429 words)

	LILITH - THE ROCK OPERA ACT ONE (2006)
		Rock Composer THOMAS KUGLER has put together a masterpiece.
		LILITH - THE ROCK OPERA is the coolest spin ever given to the Creation Story in the book of GENESIS.
		Not only is this the story of how ADAM and EVE disobeyed God by biting the apple, it is now a tale of the first woman scorned-ADAMS first wife, LILITH.
	www.rockwired.com /lilith.html (153 words)

	CD Baby: DESTINY FAIRE: Destiny Faire - The Rock Opera
		The ultimate story based "Rock Opera" with a magnificent blend of rock based guitar combined with elaborate orchestration arrangements and premier vocal tracks.
		if you love rock opera and epic rock this album is a must.
		This is an incredible rock opera with a great story, and wonderfully written lyrics set to beautiful, powerful music.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/destinyfaire (1165 words)

	Thomas Kugler Presents "Lilith, the Rock Opera"
		Composer Thomas Kugler presents "LILITH - The Rock Opera," a 24-song double-CD set which retells the Creation story with the addition of Lilith, the first woman created to be Adam's wife.
		LILITH is Kugler's second rock opera, the followup to "EVENSONG - A Vampire Rock Opera," released in 2000 and staged in 2001 in Hollywood's Jewel Box Theatre Center.
		With its witch's brew of hard-hitting rock and classical instruments, the musical style could be called "electric baroque;" LILITH is like a treasure unearthed from a legendary lost period of music, when rock and orchestral music co-existed in harmony.
	lilithrockopera.com (307 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Southern Rock Opera: Music: Drive By Truckers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nominally the story of the fictional band Betamax Guillotine, mostly the opera is a dedication to legendary southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, and most of the songs are about, or contain references to, them.
		Not a rock opera in the sense of Tommy or Jesus Christ Superstar, this sprawling double disc is more akin to a song cycle about Southern rock, in particular Lynyrd Skynyrd.
		A potentially dodgy concept that's redeemed by magnificent songwriting, passionate singing, and ruggedly confident but far from over-the-top playing, Southern Rock Opera should be required listening not only for fans of the genre, but anyone interested in the history of '70s rock, or even the history of the South in that decade.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Southern-Rock-Opera-Drive-Truckers/dp/B000068FUS (1616 words)

	Inanna The Opera Page
		A PAGAN ROCK OPERA FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM
		After seven years of research and three years of composing, a rock opera has been completed, based on extensive historical study and past-life memories.
		It explores her rise to power, and transition from a goddess of love to a goddess of war over several thousand years; a transition caused by the changing attitudes of her worshippers.
	www.mindspring.com /~mysticgryphon/inanna.htm (275 words)

	Bostoon Rock Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For its 1998-'99 season opener, Boston Rock Opera is presenting, for the first time, both acts of the Preservation saga in a version that throws Davies's lifetime obsessions under the stage lights in lavish fashion.
		If a special press performance of the rock musical a week ago Thursday provided any indication of what's in store, Davies has to be grinning.
		In BRO's hands, the songs, dialogue, and characters leap from dusty obscurity to vivid, three-dimensional life, at once funny and sad and tragic, with all Davies's original intentions intact.
	bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/10/08/REX/BOSTON_ROCK_OPERA.html (529 words)

	!Hero: The Rock Opera - Various Artists
		But the rock opera, a style marrying the revolutionary aspects of rock with the theatrical components of opera, was still uncharted territory.
		DeGarmo, half of the '80s Christian rock duo DeGarmo & Key and co-founder of ForeFront Records (dc Talk, Rebecca St. James, Audio Adrenaline), felt a burden for the MTV generation, seeing how few of its legionnaires knew the significance of the Easter story.
		Act 1's highlight and first rock single is the big-riffed rapcore of "Raised in Harlem," chronicling the healing of the daughter of an overzealous Jairus (played by rapper T-Bone); this song would've worked better if Jairus' claims regarding his New York origins weren't belied by his use of the oh-so-southern contraction "y'all." But I digress.
	www.christianitytoday.com /music/reviews/2003/hero.html (1117 words)

	Original Rock Musicals -- A List of New and Undiscovered Rock Musicals
		This site is intended as a resource for those who are interested in original rock musicals and for those who have written original musicals and want to develop and/or promote their work.
		Rock musical based on Charles Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." Sounding somewhat like rockified traditional broadway songs, the music mixes upbeat pop-driven tunes with generous libretto.
		1991 album by the rock group Savatage, depicting the life of a rock star borne of the street and struggling with his addiction to drugs.
	www.donlinke.com /musicals (957 words)

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