I'm not a huge fan of techno music. Or of opera. But Eric Whitacre, one of my favorite composers, mashed them together with the traditional musical theatre tradition to create Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings.
The story is not based on Milton's Paradise Lost, but is actually about a tribe of angels whose parents hid them away and took their wings as children. An odd concept, true, but so is the music. It's a really beautiful and unexpected fit--like bacon in ice cream, or Bollywood and Jane Austen.
You can hear excerpts of the music by clicking here. I strongly suggest that you do. I'm slightly addicted to "What If," "Sleep My Child," "Forgotten" and "All Alone."
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