Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O announces opera

The "psycho-opera" will hit the stage this October

Filed in Yeah Yeah Yeahs, News at 11.34am on 19 July 11

Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs has written an opera, Damon Albarn stylee.

The name of the show has not been given, although it's described as a "psycho-opera" and "an assault on the tragic joys of youth".

The opera will premiere in Brooklyn this October, at St Anne's Warehouse. The director has been revealed as novelist, playwright and filmmaker Adam Rapp.

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