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A Steampunk Opera - Movies, Music, Fashion, Sports - Posted: 27th May, 2017 - 5:57pm
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Post Date: 12th Apr, 2017 - 7:29pm / Post ID: #
A Steampunk Opera
A couple years I was going through music suggestions on YouTube related to Abney Park and one of them was called The Dolls of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera. If you like plays with a good story and interesting music, it is definitely something you might want to check out. So far there are only workshop productions of the play, but it is something that is so rich and descriptive that it really draws you in just listening to the music and its incorporated sound effects. A Steampunk Opera is written by Paul Shapera and is set in the steampunk society of New Albion over several generations. The first song past the overture sets the scene for the play:
QUOTE Several hundred years before
A gambler and a monk embarked
On a long trek through the endless prairies of the North
They had a fierce debate
About God and chance and fate and to resolve it agreed a game of cards indeed be played
The game went on all day
And through the next and next they played
And around them a shelter was built to shield the rain
A street around the shelter formed
Then a church, a house, a bar
And that is how the city of New Albion was born
New Albion today
With bustling streets, machines, cafes
And the nice, the wise, the eccentric and insane
The Mafia’s run by
A red haired dwarf with just one eye
Whose affairs he decides with a pair of silver dice
Over the Zeppelin Union Pilots
A castrati boss presides
And we hear his song each afternoon as he flies by
There’s prisons made of lead
And gargoyles of iron shreds
And Annabelle McAlistair who’s raising up the dead
Annabelle McAlistair who’s raising up the dead
A gambler and a monk embarked
On a long trek through the endless prairies of the North
They had a fierce debate
About God and chance and fate and to resolve it agreed a game of cards indeed be played
The game went on all day
And through the next and next they played
And around them a shelter was built to shield the rain
A street around the shelter formed
Then a church, a house, a bar
And that is how the city of New Albion was born
New Albion today
With bustling streets, machines, cafes
And the nice, the wise, the eccentric and insane
The Mafia’s run by
A red haired dwarf with just one eye
Whose affairs he decides with a pair of silver dice
Over the Zeppelin Union Pilots
A castrati boss presides
And we hear his song each afternoon as he flies by
There’s prisons made of lead
And gargoyles of iron shreds
And Annabelle McAlistair who’s raising up the dead
Annabelle McAlistair who’s raising up the dead
Prepare to set aside a couple hours if you want to listen to it, because you probably will be drawn in. There are two sequels also written by Paul Shapera which can be listened to on his website, The New Albion Radio Hour: A Dieselpunk Opera, and An Atompunk Opera: The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness. I can't tell you much more without spoiling the wonderful twist and turns of A Steampunk Opera. It's worth a listen at least once, maybe twice, maybe three times.
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This concept seems really interesting! I've always been a fan of the opera genre, but have had a hard time relating to the storylines. This seems like it could offer a cool and unexpected twist to the genre! I'd like to see more intermingling of opera styles with these sorts of genres. Maybe a fantasy opera featuring elves and ogres! The premise is exciting!
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I am personally a huge fan of Albion series, especially The Dolls of New Albion, and have always enjoyed the creative storytelling that plays into albums.
The quote above has actually lend me to consider it being an interesting idea for a city in one of my campaigns for Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder, though even without such I have listened through them albums a couple of times. Especially the one mentioned above.
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