If you are open to new experiences and want to see things you likely have never seen on a stage, and may never see again, then this may just be the right opera for you. The Lyric Opera’s revival of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1890 opera The Queen of Spades, directed by Benjamin Davis, will fit into the WTF category for many attendees-but not necessarily in a bad way. There are others that may challenge your tastes but leave you thinking, “Well, that was interesting.” And then there are envelope-stretching productions that, while well meaning, engender a response along the lines of, “WTF?” There are performances that play exactly to your sensibilities and provide you with thorough delight. The album then breaks into chapters, starting with “Jesus of Suburbia,” an epic nine-minute song broken up into five parts, each getting its own title, like “City of the Damned” and “Dearly Beloved.” After wrapping its way through a series of styles - from up-tempo punk to Sixties-flavored pop - the tracks wrap up in “Tales of Another Broken Home,” which explodes into the big finale.Brandon Jovanovich (left) as tormented protagonist Gherman and Lucas Meachem as Prince Yeletsky face off in the climactic scene. The opening title track is a blistering commentary on today’s media propelled by a trademark Green Day infectious hook. I didn’t want to make people feel like I’m telling them what to do or come across as a shitty politician.” “A lot of it is coming from trying to have a relationship between different people and yourself, but being surrounded by total chaos. “I wanted to try to find some human relationship throughout it,” Armstrong says. “It’s our most ambitious album to date,” says Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day’s forthcoming American Idiot, a concept record the trio has dubbed a “punk rock opera.” The sprawling thirteen-song album, due in September, tells the tales of such characters as “Saint Jimmy” and an unnamed female protagonist “Whatzhername” living in a heated political climate.
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