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The Opera by You -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for Opera by You. Veil of ironThis is an idea, i've been working on just lately, This was originally designed to be modern day tale, with blacksmith being explosives designer, so not sure how it translates properly. i've not yet figured out everything in it, but it goes something like this. SYNOPSIS
The Blacksmith has developed new, better stronger steel, of which the nearby warmongering nobles want to use for making weapons. The blacksmith agrees gladly when offered huge sum of gold. One day however, his furnace collapses and his shop burns down. This drives him out to streets for a while, he has plenty of money to buy new shop, but it takes time. During this time he realizes that the surrounding areas of the castle are tyrannized by the lords, with his new weapons. And the farmers and workers are working with poor tools and live in horrible conditions. He is shocked by the fact that all this evil is enforced with weapons he made. He starts in secret to make tools for the farmers, with the new steel, and at the same time, starts to use bad steel to make weapons. Eventually the farmers rise against their lords and once they attack the castle bearing nothing but their tools, they manage to defeat the guards, whose weapons and armor is no match to the tools made with the new steel. After the defeat of the evil lords, the Blacksmith asked to be the new lord, but he refuses stating that he only can shape metal, not nations. edit:
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Well i can continue on it this much, my idea on the growth of the blacksmith was that in the beginning he really is just doing his job, and maybe even gloats a bit with his wealth he is getting from the lords, but as he is forced to face the outside world, reality he learns to be more humble, and sees what his creations are doing.
As for other characters, i had some idea of a small kid being sort of "guide" for him, a kid who is from the slums of the city, he and the blacksmith bump into eachother as the blacksmith gets lost into the small streets of the poor area.
I also had this idea of the lord's wife, having a crush on the blacksmith, but her being very materialistic and superifcial, the blacksmith does not find much interest in her.
just few thoughts, please do carry on. I am busy, but i'll keep popping back and dropping my thoughts as i can.
the most i could do for the veil
would be
to put up 'dueling violins'
dueling monologues of the blacksmith and the lord
straining to impress and seduce the female.
(she says nothing)
on a scale of 1 - 10: 10 being a funny 1 how funny/ironic
would you like it?
BTW, if someone chooses this task, please remember to inform me! Same goes with other tasks too :)
Thank you,
Iida
Hello!
Samuli has told us that he doesn´t have time to develop this story. Would someone else like to continue from where he has started? Who are the other characters? What is the blacksmith like in the beginning? Samuli has done good job developing the plot but there are still many interesting questions to be answered. If you're interested, don't hesitate! Everyone can participate.
Iida
As a political science student, this sure stirs my imagination!
I love the concept - it's what many inventors of weapons of the past have torn their souls pondering. Maybe that could give some clue to possible characters:
- Alfred Nobel - Inventor of dynamite and owner of Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer. Also founder of the Nobel Peace Prize. Scholars who studied Nobel have said it was Nobel's way to compensate for developing destructive forces, though this is somewhat debatable. Accidental explosion in his lab took the life of his youngest brother and 5 others.
- Richard Jordan Gatling - Inventor of the first successful machine gun. Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is. Reality proved otherwise. Some scientists who unleashed Americas atomic arsenal less than a century later would see it much the same way. In his later years Gatling moved to more peaceful fields of invention.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer - Leader of the Manhattan Project, "The Father of the Atomic Bomb". Later became convinced that the power of nuclear weapons should be controlled by a UN-type transnational organization, not individual nations. The first Soviet bomb made that dream obsolete. Then he campaigned against big-yield H-bombs, since their cost in civilian lives was beyond any conceivable military aims. Never a pacifist, he still argued for a strong moral obligation that comes with great destructive power. Got torn to schreds by his political opponents.
is really important the "love" theme in this opera. Maybe would be a background or maybe a consecuence. the Blacksmith's passion must be the principal theme of this Opera Idea.
i love this concept - excavating the history of a castle.
it seems like a modern tale (of a devious banker) mixed
with a classic story of a moral blacksmith may be easily
accomplished through ghosts, spirits, apparitions, fairies,
in short... place memory.
If you find it doable, and sensble, please do make collapsed story. I dont have time atm, as i'am extremely busy with my own project.
This is a great tale for an Opera!
The secret power of super steel would allow for many strange and wonderful encounters to develop as a result of the blacksmiths' magic.
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SJ : I was joking. The rules are unwritten. Every opera I have seen or heard of have the sad love and death angle in them. Even in Mozart's Magic Flute.
Of course we could brake the rules :)
SL: I didnt know about any rules. Though havent watched much of any opera, but i believed that the underlying story structures would be similar to normal films. I suppose that if the "rules" demand it, the ending could be made to somehow kill the blacksmith off. But i dont really like that either, that if something is sad. Lesson learned there (make good turn in your life, and fate rewards you with death)
SJ : But sad, one sided love is the essence of opera. The characters must have love and somebody must die. There are rules in the opera you know :)
The time travel didn't fit into the story as well as I had hoped. I'd just would like to see a sci fi opera. -> Back to the writing board.
Sami: I really dont think scifi fits into this one. :S It just adds pointless twists, also i dont really like the concept of putting "love" into anything. But then againt this is just my opinion.
Timi, Thanks, yeah well its just as synopsis, of course there are more characters in the real script. And i think the fact that something one person has made to cause lot of evil, is well enough to empower him to fix it, if the person is not evil, and has some morals, of course. Hehe, again pointing to the no-love thingy. I just hate it, its everywhere.
That's a great storyline. What if you add a few more characters into it. For example the blacksmith could have a son, who serves as his apprentice, who falls in love with the evil lords daughter and joins "the dark side". It would make the blacksmith's decision to empower the people and cause even his own son's death all the more dramatic and tragic.
Actually combine this to my story, we would have a good one. Instead of rival villages the army of good are the farmers and the army of evil are the soldiers.
A love triangle endures when the blacksmith, who is also a man, falls in love with the heroine.
a good synopsis Samuli
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