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Tintin, The Opera

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The_Adventures_of_Tintin_-_21_-_The_Castafiore_EmeraldIt's been a comic. A TV series. A movie. A piggy bank. A Monopoly board.

And now Tintin is to be an opera. An opera.

Based on the Tintin comic The Castafiore Emerald, which does to be fair, feature plenty of opera,

A lyrical comedy will include Mozart arias and the work of Rossini, Offenbach, Puccini, Gounod and Verdi … with te words adapted from Hergé's books.

Tintin will be played by Amani Devos, Castafiore by soprano Hélène Bernardy.

While Captain Haddock will be played by the non-singing actor Michel Warzée and eight performances will play out during September at Hulpe Castle in Belgium.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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