Billy Corgan premiered his A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness opera on the Lyric Opera of Chicago on Friday night time, November twenty first.
The present options symphonic and operatic renditions of The Smashing Pumpkins’ traditional 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Unhappiness, together with such hits as “Tonight, Tonight,” “1979,” and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings.”
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Corgan himself sings and performs guitar on choose songs, and is joined on vocals by Sydney Mancasola (soprano), Zoie Reams (mezzo-soprano), Dominick Valdés Chenes (tenor), and Edward Parks (baritone). The music is carried out by James Lowe, and carried out by the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Refrain.
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Fan-filmed clips on YouTube seize putting reinterpretations of the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Unhappiness songs, particularly notable within the operatic rendition of the “Regardless of all my rage, I’m nonetheless only a rat in a cage” refrain of “Bullet with Butterfly Wings.”
“Tonight, Tonight” will get two renditions within the opera, the primary early on in Act One with the choir solely, and the second to shut out Act Two with the choir, soloists, and Corgan.
A Night time of Mellon Collie and Infinite Unhappiness continues with six extra performances on November twenty second, twenty fifth, twenty sixth, twenty eighth, twenty ninth, and thirtieth. Tickets to the remaining reveals are available here.
Watch clips of the opera, and see the setlist, under.
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Setlist:
Act One
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Unhappiness
Tonight, Tonight
Jellybelly
Galapogos
Thirty-Three
Lovely
Muzzle
Lily (My One and Solely)
Stumbleine
Via the Eyes of Ruby
Act Two
Within the Arms of Sleep
1979
By Starlight
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
To Forgive
Cupid de Locke
Porcelina of the Huge Oceans
Tonight, Tonight
