Pete Townshend is turning his 2019 novel The Age of Anxiety into a rock opera, featuring a soundtrack of new original songs. The Who guitarist is also working on a documentary chronicling the entire ...

From dystopian grids to teenage tragedies, we rank 15 bombastic masterpieces that pushed the boundaries of rock’s dramatic storytelling potential.

All video games are a sort of tenuous performance art, requiring players to take on the role of both audience and performer as they inhabit an interactive story designed to create a shared experience.

Forget Tommy. The newly re-released Quadrophenia represents the highest achievement in a lovably overblown genre: guitar music with story lines. MCA/Polydor Frequently pretentious, occasionally ...

Rock opera is a very niche sub-genre that hasn’t necessarily graced the music industry in a successful manner regularly. However, when it has, it has made history. Two musicians who made a killing on ...

If Jesus Christ can have a rock opera, why not Dionysus? After all, the Greek god of wine, a.k.a. Bacchus, is the original rock star, known for whipping his intoxicated followers into a frenzy of ...

The Rock Opera or conceptual album first came to light in popular music during the late 1960s. Obviously inspired by the sweeping orchestral suites of such composers as Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker ...

Led Zeppelin fans found a new reason to dislike opera this year — if they cared enough about opera to dislike it in the first place. The iconic band's bass player, John Paul Jones, scotched the most ...

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The composer asked Pasadena residents what they'd tell residents from 1925 and 2125, then turned their answers into a time-traveling song cycle.