Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O “dying” to bring her opera to UK

Karen O says she is "weak at the knees" at the idea of staging 'Stop The Virgens' in front of a British crowd

Filed in Yeah Yeah Yeahs, News at 11.19am on 18 November 11

Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O is hoping to bring her opera Stop The Virgens to British shores.

Talking to The Independent, she said: "I would love nothing more than to bring this [the opera] to Britain. I'm dying to bring it to Britain. 'Stop The Virgens' is weak at the knees at the prospect of a British audience."

The production, described by Karen O as a "psycho opera", has so far staged ten for days in Brooklyn.

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