The Fallen
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 […]
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The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello
Since the day i began this blog (way back in the ancient days of a month ago), i have intended to feature this video. And as giulas41 pointed out on the Jasper The Dead Guy Guy post, there is another […]
Rasputina
Rasputina is a wondefully uncategorizable band consisting of 3 cellists, based out of New York and led by Melora Creager. While they sometimes use a drummer, they mostly make a very psychedelic band meets chamber music on acid sound. With […]
Steampunk Fashion
Today we’re going to take a little look at the wonderful clothing designs of Kate Lambert, aka KATO of SteampunkCouture.com. KATO designs and creates clothing which she markets as steampunky, since her natural style and certain steampunk sensibilities go hand in hand. […]
Character Background 3: Jasper, The Dead Guy
As we prepare to begin composition of the 3rd Act (in about 2 weeks) it’s becoming time to address the one character in the entire Opera who is in all 4 Acts, present in all 4 generations the show encompasses. […]
Jules Verne, 10 Interesting Facts
We interrupt our regularly scheduled post (which was probably going to being Character Background 3: Jasper, The Dead Guy) because today is Jules Verne’s birthday, and as he is considered to be the father of both steampunk and science fiction in general, […]
The Tiger Lillies
In the genre of Dark Cabaret, these guys are the one eyed, alcoholic, prostitute pimping, donkey show organizing Fathers of the genre. They’ve been around since 1989, before the 1990s neo burlesque scene and the post 2000 coinage of the […]
Alternate History
Steampunk stories, actually the entire notion, rely completely upon reimagining history. The entire thing got started by reimagining Victoria era Britain (with a sci-fi twist), but it’s grown to include other countries and places, usually within a 100 to 200 year framework. […]
Steampunk Tarot
A match made in heaven, surely. Tarot is, if nothing else, a potent collection of archetypes, capable of being reimagined, redesigned and reinterpreted ad infinum. Steampunk of course specializes in stamping it’s aesthetic upon anything it meets. You’d think there’d […]
The Tango
Since the Steampunk Opera makes consistent use of and plays with the tango, i did a lot of online exploration of it, and as it’s truly a deep and rich style, it’s worth doing a post on. The Narrator’s songs are all […]