FULL Help, Help the Globolinks Romans-sur-Isère 2022 Conservatoire Valence Romans
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Help, Help the Globolinks
- Composer: Menotti Gian Carlo
- Libretto: Gian Carlo Menotti Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Auditorium Cité de la Musique, Romans-sur-Isère, France
- Recorded: June 7, 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: élèves du Conservatoire Valence Romans
- Conductor: Jean François Michel
- Orchestra: Jean François Michel, PIANO
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Conservatoire Valence Romans
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Help, help, the Globolinks! Opera Help, Help! Strange extraterrestrial creatures, the Globolinks, have landed and are about to invade the Earth, transforming the speech of all those they touch into incomprehensible electronic sounds.
Nothing seems able to annihilate them, except instrumental or sung music, to which they turn out to be allergic. This is enough to give glory to Mrs. Euterpova, music teacher somewhat neglected until then, suddenly promoted to savior of the universe, who would have “forgotten how to sing”…
In this humorous opera, a parody of 1950s science fiction films written by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1968, 28 years before the film “Mars attacks! by Tim Burton, farce also questions the relationship between “human” vocal and instrumental music and “inhuman” electronic music…
