Is This How I'm Supposed to Feel?

Is This How I'm Supposed to Feel? will (hopefully) be an opera in two acts by me (User:SGuySMW) and the first studio album by my music project Agape Airlines.

Composition

The opera can be seen as a mix of Giacomo Puccini, Pink Floyd, Philip Glass, John Adams, Rosalía, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Sami Yusuf with a side of Robert Frost. It is essentially cartharsis turned into music. The opera is divided into two acts. I expect there to be multiple languages sung during the opera.

Performance

Initially, I thought that the opera's instrumentals would all be pre-recorded, especially with all the synthesizers and guitars alongside the orchestral movements. But then I realized they could perform backstage, yet they can come onto the stage during important solos and other musical moments. If we don't have enough space for an orchestra, we can pre-record the orchestral movements as stated before.

The opera should make its world premiere somewhere in Ontario, if only there are any large theatres that work. Ideal venues would be the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and Meridian Hall, both in Toronto. The former would work as a co-production with the Canadian Opera Company, while the latter would work as an independent production, though an orchestra can still help.

Synopsis

Act 1: In

The opera begins silently after the conductor enters the pit. The curtains rise to reveal a single podium beneath the limelight. I quietly walk onstage, asking questions like, "Is this how I'm supposed to feel?" I then step onto the podium, asking "Do we sing this song for the ones in control... or do we sing it for ourselves?," before inviting the audience to stand up. This has to do with growing up in school and listening to "O Canada" every day. I then conduct an imaginary orchestra (depicted by school desks) in the actual song while the real orchestra plays in the pit. If the show is performed in another country, that country's anthem will play instead. The anthem will not be included in the album.

After the anthem, the same questions are asked, yet more voices join in. the rest of the lights reveal a classroom. From there, a number on childhood innocence will play.

Act 2: Out

The act will begin with a long setting of Frost's iconic poem "The Road Not Taken"; though it is a setting, it also has the familiar-in-the-Wiki-Camp "I'm caught between everything ..." refrain during sections after the poem.

The opera will end with "Humanity", looking somewhere in the future. At the very end in the piece, a short declaration in another language, possibly Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, or Arabic, will be sung before the curtains fall down. And then, there's the curtain call—we take it all in to thunderous applause after letting it all out, as opposed to a fast-paced farewell like a Broadway show.