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Twitter Opera Invites Your Tweets

By Drew Nelles, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 9, 2009 5:17 PM CDT

(Newser) – England’s world-famous Royal Opera House is getting with the times by launching the world’s first Twitter libretto, the Independent reports. Participants send lyrical tweets to @youropera, which will be set to familiar and original opera music in The Twitter Opera next month. Some critics worry it cheapens the art form, but an Opera House rep calls it the “perfect way for everyone to become involved.”

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This undated screen shot shows Twitter, a short-message social networking site. (AP Photo)

This photo provided by the Royal Opera House shows Sir John Tomlinson in the role of Wotan in Wagner's Die Walkuere. (AP Photo/Royal Opera House, Clive Barda)

In this photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera, Johan Botha performs in the role of Siegmund opposite Waltraud Meier as Sieglinde, in Richard Wagner's Die Walkuere. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera,Ken Howard)

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