Plot Tweeting

Do you tweet? Have you wondered what all the fuss is about?

No matter the answer, here’s a fun way to check out Twitter. Go to search.twitter.com and enter #operaplot into the search box. You’ll be hooked into a recent craze/competition, the goal of which is to reduce an opera plot into 140 characters (the limits of a tweet.)

If you don’t twitter, just enter your ~120-character* opera plot for the WTOC 2009 operas (Cosi fan tutte, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and La boheme) into the comments section of this blog. I’ll tweet it for you, and I’ll pick the best one to include on the face page of the blog throughout the summer. [*120 characters leaves 10 characters for the search “tag” (#operaplot) and 10 characters for your name, if you’d like it included!]

ogiovetti and gsandow sort of rule this game, but there have been entertaining entries from far and wide. (The “@” symbol identifies a Twitter screen name.)

So far, I’ve seen this:

You can’t tell those are your BFs? Seriously? Oh no! Don’t do it with the other one! Wait. Maybe you want it like this? Huh. [by arbakr]

…this…

They’re all the same, those women. Can’t resist a good looking bloke. Not a faithful bone in their body. Everyone’s at it. [by higgis]

…this…

A bunch of bohemians. Is that a cold hand? Cough, cough. Forsake love. Cough, cough. Regain love. Cough, cough. Dead. [by hchan]

…this…

Seamstress pals around with bohemians in a December-May affair. Receives muff as parting gift. [by ogiovetti]

Mozart’s Cosi, Monteverdi’s Ulisse and Puccini’s Boheme in 120 characters each. You can do it.