Fear not — no secretive glittery paintings nor
operatic librettos were unearthed in some dusty closet.
It drew on the history of
operatic librettos, the strategies of physical comedy, the language of narrative ballad and the futile violence of animated cartoons for inspiration.
Not exact matches
Cold Case is not only
operatic, with a different bloody
libretto and a different leitmotif each week, but has ambitions on the grander scale of Gesamtkunstwerk, of total Wagnerian theater - including a jukebox time machine.