Roger Waters' Opera

The title might stick in the throat of those of us from Norn Iron but apparently it means "There is Hope" so there. Finally released on September 27th after a development period close to 15 years you can read all about it on roger-waters.com and listen to a few of the tracks.

While I'm not a complete Philistine where opera is concerned, must confess, I have a few of those Opera Greatest Hit type CDs and Lesley definitely has Madame Butterfly in her collection. Listening to the tracks on the site it all seems heavy going to me but I'll give it a go.

Now he's got this out of his system maybe he'll knuckle down and finish the rock album he's working on. His tours of 1999, 2000, 2002 and the recent triumphant reunion with his old backing band ;-) at Live8 show that the audience is ready and waiting. Which reminds me, I must get tickets for The Rolling Stones the next time they swing by before they finally shuffle off this mortal coil.