“Tintin” Has Become An Opera
Tintin started as a book character in 1929 but over the years he has been in a stage show, featured in a Steven Spielberg film and been the subject of a classical music suite. Now he is to be featured in an opera. Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy — did I tell you that I once planned to write an all-dog opera with my friend Dee Sushi but we ran aground because Dee wanted to cast dachshunds and bassets but I wanted fox terriers and huskies: artistic differences — are starring in an open-air musical adaptation of “The Castafiore Emerald,” which opens this week at the Chateau de La Hulpnear in Brussels. The production will run until September 26 and Belgian organizers Opera For All hope it will move to France next. Tintin was created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name Hergé.
