{"id":1915,"date":"2010-09-14T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T08:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2010-09-14T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:58:33","slug":"is-it-worf-it-premiere-of-first-klingon-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/09\/14\/is-it-worf-it-premiere-of-first-klingon-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Worf it ? Premiere of first Klingon opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a good day to, erm, sing. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/sep\/13\/first-klingon-opera-lifts-off\" target=\"_blank\">reported in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian<\/a> and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-11265311\" target=\"_blank\">recently by the BBC<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/ktre.nl\/NEWS\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dutch company <\/a>has premiered the first opera entirely in Klingon. Called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u-theopera.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;u,<\/a>&#8216; the piece is created by the Klingon Terran Research Ensemble.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1918\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1918\" style=\"margin: 5px;border: white 5px solid\" title=\"worf\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/09\/worf-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lieutenant Worf\" width=\"179\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/09\/worf-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/09\/worf.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heghlu&#39;meH QaQ jajvam!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fictional warrior-race from the iconic sci-fi series\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em> is famed for its guttural, consonant-rich language that sounds as aggressive as its speakers are to behold, as you can hear in a video by the language&#8217;s creator, Marc Okrand, which has been sent to the Klingon&#8217;s home-planet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ujliyG96Cf8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>You can view moments from the opera and an interview with key figures involved in the project on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-11265311\" target=\"_blank\">BBC site here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether it can compete with Shakespeare&#8217;s famous soliloquy from <em>Hamlet<\/em>, &#8216;To be or not to be,&#8217; as it appears in the original Klingon, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='474' height='297' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CiRMGYQfXrs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Whatever next: &#8216;<em>Dancing with Wookies on Ice<\/em> ?&#8217; I think I need to go and lie down now&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/09\/14\/is-it-worf-it-premiere-of-first-klingon-opera\/&amp;t=Is it Worf it ? 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