Opera Based On Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ To Premiere Next March
By Scott Bernstein Mar 3, 2016 • 2:30 pm PST
Opéra de Montréal’s 2016-2017 season will be headlined by the staging of Another Brick In The Wall – an opera based on Pink Floyd’s iconic 1979 album The Wall. An announcement of the season, including word of Another Brick In The Wall – The Opera, was attended by Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters who wrote the lyrics and music for the famed LP.
Waters wrote The Wall after an incident at a 1977 Pink Floyd show at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in which he spat on a fan and guitarist David Gilmour refused to perform on the band’s encore. Roger returned to Olympic Stadium for today’s press conference.
“The Wall is about the journey from the enmity of spitting in someone’s face to the position where love becomes more important than that enmity,” Waters reportedly said today when asked about the 1977 concert.
Julien Bilodeau composed the operatic version of The Wall with Waters billed as librettist. The opera is expected to run from March 11 – 24, 2017 at Place des Arts in Montreal. Listen to musical excerpts from Another Brick In The Wall – The Opera:
