(See: Styx.)Ī recent subgenre of the Rock Opera is the Urban Opera or 'hip-hopera,' concept albums and musicals telling stories using hip-hop instead of rock music. This sometimes marks the Jumping the Shark point of the band or the band's dissolution, especially if only one musician wants to do a rock opera and the others don't. A few skip the whole 'concept album' phase and are written explicitly for the stage. This is odd, since Tommy was the first widely heard Rock Opera, and was farther on the opera side of this scale.Įspecially popular rock operas tend to get adapted as The Musical, although as there may be staging difficulties or only one or two characters with singing parts, changes are often made. The Other Wiki's entry for Tommy suggests that 'rock cantata' or 'rock song cycle' might be a more accurate term, since a rock opera is purely a musical performance that is not intended to be staged or acted out. Some are sung entirely from the point of view of a single (possibly unnamed) character, while others have explicitly-named characters interacting with each other in song (and likely performed by different singers). The 'opera'-ness of the form varies significantly. The Rock Opera is a specific type of rock Concept Album which tells a story. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the 'Trope Workshop' found on the 'Troper Tools' menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the 'fair use' licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.

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Rock opera