The Opera de Montreal collaborated with Pink Floyd’s bassist and chief songwriter Roger Waters on Another Brick In The Wall: The Opera.
The project will be part of the Opera de Montreal’s 2017 season and will be based on the music and lyrics of Waters.
“I sat there not expecting to be moved, and I was moved,” Waters said Thursday (via France 24/Rolling Stone). “Very moved. So I approach this project with great enthusiasm.”
According to the official website, the premiere of this adaptation on the Montreal stage is highly significant, as it was after a concert at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in 1977 that Roger Waters got the idea for the project. Starting out as a concept album (1979) and then a film (1982), The Wall is a psychological drama inspired by Roger Waters’ life. Through a depiction of Pink’s feelings of alienation and isolation, The Wall is representative of the difficulties of an entire generation, whose members are faced with the collapse of their dreams and the world they know.
Another Brick In The Wall: The Opera debuts in March 2017.
