{"id":5359,"date":"2010-09-12T00:49:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T04:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2010-09-11T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T15:53:10","slug":"taking-the-term-space-opera-too-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/12\/taking-the-term-space-opera-too-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the term &#8220;Space Opera&#8221; too literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get your tickets now for the first opera to be performed entirely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/09\/10\/klingon-space-opera-makes-cosmic-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\">in Klingon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Die-hard &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; fans may want to dust off their Klingon dictionaries and take a transporter to Europe for the debut of the first opera ever to be completely sung in the invented science fiction language. <\/p>\n<p>The opera, called &#8220;u,&#8221; kicks off a three-day run at the Zeebelt Theater today in The Hague, Netherlands. The title &#8220;u&#8221; is the Klingon word for &#8220;universe&#8221; or &#8220;universal.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the performances were still available as of Friday morning, according to Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>Klingon, which is spoken by members of the fictional &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; warrior race of the same name, has evolved into a significant pop culture phenomenon since the American science fiction TV series first hit the airwaves in the late 1960s. <\/p>\n<p>Fans worldwide adopted the alien dialect and made it one of the most popular constructed languages, opera organizers said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your tickets now for the first opera to be performed entirely in Klingon: Die-hard &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; fans may want to dust off their Klingon dictionaries and take a transporter to Europe for the debut of the first opera ever to be completely sung in the invented science fiction language. The opera, called &#8220;u,&#8221; kicks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[200,222,223,101],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-music","tag-netherlands","tag-startrek","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1or","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5360,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}