Musical stories in fantastical worlds
On a periphery from evil clowns, we’re going to feature the closest thing to an evil clown character i’ve made. Today’s track is from another show i wrote and toured in the States (It’s actually slowly gearing up for another […]
I’m actually done musically with Act 3 and now working on vocal melodies and lyrics. I, of course, am not actually signing any of the material, but i sing all the lines on the scratch tracks so the vocalists will […]
The short novel ‘Goodbye To Berlin’ by Christopher Isherwood, usually published together with his other short novel ‘Mr. Norris Changes Trains’ as The Berlin Stories, is one of the most celebrated books written about the Weimar era, that classic explosion […]
Today we’re going to look at another show which i wrote sometime back, The Fallen. It’s a very different animal than the Steampunk Opera, but it too is a theater piece. It’s performed by 2 singers, 10 dancers and features […]
I sit here in a tine old, village house in the mountains of southern Serbia madly composing away. My wife has taken our beautiful little toddler to Belgrade in order for me to work uninterupted. I rise each morning, eat, […]
I am starting this blog in order to declare my intention to make a Steampunk Opera and to document the process. Hi. My name is Paul Shapera and I make music under the name Mocha Lab. I will be posting […]