I'm terrible at self-promotion so this is me going out of my comfort zone to share my amateurish attempt at turning Terrore nello spazio (1965), an Italian science fiction movie that would later inspire Alien (1979) into opera da camera in un atto, a chamber opera in one act.
My Italian is embarrassingly bad, my knowledge of music composition untrained and inept at best --- this is, if I am being generous, a rough draft, but one that I've taken as far as I can (yes, that is my sale's pitch) and regardless of all that it still brought me great joy to make ... and who knows? You might find it an interesting read as well.
So I am offering a free way of exploring this project; simply reading it on Internet archive:
Opera da Camera in un Atto. Italian Retro-futurism; from the same aesthetic universe as Barbarella, Starcrash and Danger: Diabolik; a libret
Because most folks have never heard this obscure movie, here it is dubbed in English, Planet of the Vampires ... which is an odd choice of title since there are zero vampires in the movie, let alone a planet's worth. Reanimated, rotting corpses controlled by a sinister alien intelligence? O sure, but apparently the distributors worried that American audiences wouldn't know what a zombie was. Cheers!
