Repo The Genetic Opera

Just so you know I have just heard about this so it is going to be the most un-informed blog I will hopefully ever write. So let’s dive right into this. While I was perusing the inter webs last night I found one of the most interesting things I have ever seen. An opera. Now usually things like this don’t catch my eye, but this one was extremely different.

First off the title, you know it something is different when your title is (and this is the exact title) Repo the Genetic Opera. When you have a title like that you are going to catch a lot of people’s eyes, or so I thought. Because digging a little deeper, I learned that this opera/ movie was basically a box office bomb.   

The second thing that really caught me off guard was that it was a gothic slash horror opera, which I have never heard of. So that immediately caught me off guard (because if you don’t know anything about opera’s, there are usually dramas or tragedies and not at all horror related) so this to me is a very interesting idea and I was shocked when I found out it was a box office bomb.  

Then I learned the plot of the story, truly all I did was search “Repo the Genetic Opera Plot” if you want to check me on it. So basically In the mid-21st century, an epidemic of organ failures leads to the rise of GeneCo., a company providing transplants at a great price. Those who miss their payments become targets of GeneCo. Mercenaries, who repossess the organs. In a world of drug addiction and legalized murder, a sheltered youth (Alexa Vega) seeks a cure for her rare disease as well as information about her family's mysterious history. Her questions are answered at "The Genetic Opera."

So when I learned of the plot I found it again really interesting that it bombed, then I listened to the music. And it is the worst music I have ever heard, and then understood why it bombed. So the idea of the entire opera itself is brilliant and I feel that someone else could do better with it. But I basically wrote this blog to explain that even a great idea can be totally ruined by just one aspect, when even the rest of it is still a really great.