Posted AT 3:28 AM EDT on 07/05/08
Latest mash-up: COC and hip hop
JOSHUA OSTROFF
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
If you had to pick a pair of musical genres furthest apart from each other, opera and hip hop would be a fairly safe bet. One thing they do share is sizable purist fan bases, which, whether they use the phrase or not, prefer practitioners to keep it real. Nonetheless, these star-crossed genres are coming together in a performance called The Hip Hopera, a new collaboration by the Canadian Opera Company and the Royal Conservatory of Music.
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