![]() ![]() If you're used to kicking back with a little Verdi, and someone comes along and plays you Pink Floyd's The Wall, declaiming, "Behold! Here is another kind of opera to blow your mind," you might point out that a rock opera isn't really an opera at all, but more, maybe, like a cantata, or a suite. Unfortunately, the rock opera is also a bit of a cheat, as any classical music fan knows. ![]() We're talking narrative, motifs, characters, a journey, and epiphanies, with a few tidy internal monologues mixed in to show us that this is music of the psyche. The mere undertaking of such an album-which typically sprawls to a double or triple set-is enough to fire the imagination of anyone in search of a recording that's more than a mere collection of songs. Frequently pretentious, occasionally miraculous, and almost always way epic to the high-school stoner contemplating his place in the grand cosmology, the rock opera is pop music's grand, risky bid to prove that it, too, can be capital-A Art. ![]()
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