Saturday, March 3, 2012

History of opera strikes a chord with Twitter fan.(Life)

BYLINE: DAVID NG

HOW MANY tweets does it take to cover the span of opera history?

The San Diego Opera wants to find out and has launched a Twitter project in which it will tweet about everything from Monteverdi to Mozart to Philip Glass on a daily basis.

With more than 400 years to cover - and at a rate of two tweets a day - the project could take years. The project, which can be found by typing in #operahistory, launched early this month.

The company said it has started at the beginning of opera history - around the year 1580 or so - and will continue into the 21st century.

Nicolas Reveles, director of education and outreach at San …

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