Space Opera

by Unknown Author

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music inspired by the space opera genre following the release of Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" with a new score by Alexandre Desplat.The programme looks at some of the earliest examples of space operas, including "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers", defining the genre, and features music from the likes of "Battlestar Galactica", "Battle Beyond The Stars", "Star Trek - Beyond", "Dune", "The Last Starfighter", "Serenity", "Jupiter Ascending", "The Fifth Element" and of course, "Star Wars" which perhaps did more than any other film to establish the musical sound of space opera.

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[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Space Opera is Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov’s libretto about Adam and Even on a trip to Mars. Selected as the winners of a competition to find a couple that could stand being together the longest, the opera places Adam and Even in the tight confines of a small space capsule, where they will spend every moment of the next 500 days together, alone. Or so they think. Accompanying them are hidden cameras beaming images of the couple back home for a paying audience privy to their spats and sex. Also with them is a fruit fly, substituting for Eden’s snake. With echoes of the COVID pandemic and corporate dystopia.