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Timberbrit
An Opera by Jacob Cooper
Librettist Yuka Igarashi
Directed by Jaime Castañeda
New York City Spring 2010
Timberbrit gives pop icon Britney Spears the extra push she needs to enter the fictional realm, imagining an ultimate twist in her well-known saga: her latest downswing has propelled her to her final hours, and her ex lover Justin Timberlake rushes to her side to express his undying love and tries to win her back.
Composer Jacob Cooper slowed the pop stars’ original songs down to a fraction of their usual speed and wrote new music based on the resulting characteristics, turning the once-breezy tunes into dark statements of mortality and supreme love. The music is sometimes beautiful, sometimes haunting, and always a bit deranged.
Timberbrit
An Opera by Jacob Cooper
Librettist Yuka Igarashi
Directed by Jaime Castañeda
New York City Spring 2010
Timberbrit gives pop icon Britney Spears the extra push she needs to enter the fictional realm, imagining an ultimate twist in her well-known saga: her latest downswing has propelled her to her final hours, and her ex lover Justin Timberlake rushes to her side to express his undying love and tries to win her back.
Composer Jacob Cooper slowed the pop stars’ original songs down to a fraction of their usual speed and wrote new music based on the resulting characteristics, turning the once-breezy tunes into dark statements of mortality and supreme love. The music is sometimes beautiful, sometimes haunting, and always a bit deranged.