Science fiction opera
Science-fiction opera is a subgenre of science fiction. It refers to operas whose subject-matter fits in the science fiction genre. Like science-fiction literature, science-fiction operas may be set in the future and involve spaceflight or alien invasion. Other science-fiction operas focus on a dystopian view of the future. Like Lorin Maazel's opera 1984, they may be based on a previously written science fiction book.List of science-fiction operas
The following is a partial list of science-fiction operas.
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl : Aniara
- Viktor Ullmann : The Emperor of Atlantis
- Eef van Breen ’u’, the first opera in Klingon
- Gavin Bryars : Doctor Ox's Experiment
- Philip Glass : The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 and The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, and The Voyage
- Joseph Haydn Il mondo della luna, 1777
- Leoš Janáček : The Makropulos Affair, premiered 1926; and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century
- Karel Janovický : The Utmost Sail a one act opera inspired by the launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1957. It concerns the crew of a space ship flying into space and watching the Earth being consumed in a nuclear holocaust.
- Lorin Maazel 1984
- Tod Machover Valis
- Gian Carlo Menotti A Bride from Pluto and Help, Help, the Globolinks!
- Jacques Offenbach Le voyage dans la lune, premiered 1875.
- Poul Ruders The Handmaid's Tale
- Howard Shore : The Fly
- Karlheinz Stockhausen Licht
- Steven Andrew Taylor's Paradises Lost after a short story from Ursula K. Le Guin's collection The Birthday of the World
- Michael Tippett's New Year, which features a spaceship and time travelers from the future.
