DANIEL JOHN KELLEY

This just in: My dreams of coming in third is an internet contest have been realized.

I’m the third place winner in The Omniscient Mussel’s #operaplot twitter contest, where you summarize plots of great operas in 140 characters, and pack in as much snark as humanly possible.

Here’s my winning entry, a synopsis of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin:

So I wrote this guy this EPIC love letter & he’s like “No thanks”, but now I’m married & rich & he’s all “OMG I LURV U!!” WTF?

Yep. My love of 19th century romantic opera and my mastery of 21st century LOLspeak have won me a 33 disc set of Wagner. The coolest part is that the winners were chosen by Jonas Kaufmann who is, in my opinion, the leading dramatic tenor singing today.

Oh, and I also won some side prizes from both Opera San Jose and the English National Opera for my #operaplot summary of La Boheme:

Of all the artist lofts in all the world, that consumptive dame had to light her candle in mine. Well, we’ll always have Paris.

Yup. I went there. Casablanca.

So yeah. Hurray! Prizes! Onwards! More news soon…