Earth's first all Klingon opera debuts
Klingon invitations running late
Earth has witnessed its first Klingon opera.
On Friday in The Hague, Netherlands, the Terran Research Ensemble raised the curtain on "U," the first Earth opera performed entirely in Klingon. "U" is the Klingon word for "universe" or "universal," and the opera tells the story of Kahless the Unforgettable, said to be the first Klingon emperor.
"Klingon are known as passionate opera lovers but at the same time very little was known about Klingon opera here so as far as I was concerned that was a very interesting challenge to try and make an authentic, or as authentic, something out of that as possible," U co-creator Floris Schonfeld told Reuters and The BBC.
By "here," he means Earth.
Schonfeld said he has invited the people of Klingon to see the show during its three day run in the 100-seat Zeebelt theatre in The Hague or a later run in Frankfurt Germany, but he believes they are unlikely to arrive in time. "The difficulty is that our message will reach Kronos in thirty-six years from now, and it will take them awhile to develop the technology for them to travel back here," he said. "It's a long shot but I'm still very hopeful."
If you're in the UK, you can enjoy view snippets from the opera – and Schonfeld's straight face – here. ®
COMMENTS
Dont encourage them.
Don't encourage them. They will be wanting to put on a weekend festival of Vogon poetry readings next.
Not that strange
In school I was taken to lots of operas in languages that none of us spoke.
wtf mk2
I realise the opera is in Klingon but it would help us mere earthlings if comments were made in a language that comes from Terra ;-)
invited the people of Klingon
Surely that should either be "invited the Klingon people", or "invited the people of Qo'noS*".
*Kling or Klinzhai would have also been acceptable, at a pinch.
To be highly pedantic about it
Its all fictional. There are no Klingons. Get over it and go find a life rather than arguing over grammatical errors in for a non-existent situation.
