Thursday, October 19, 2017

ROCK OPERA

This weekend Arizona Opera presents Hercules vs. Vampires...


...Patrick Morganelli's musical setting of Mario Bava's goofy but visually lush 1961 sword-and-sandal fantasy Ercole al Centro della Terra (known in English as Hercules in the Haunted World). So...

Monster-of-the-Week: ...this week's honoree is Procrustes, here depicted as an ambulatory rock...




...but still up to his traditional shtick of stretching people, or chopping them down, in order to get them to fit in bed.

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