Harry Potter: The Opera?

Composer’s hard at work on ‘The Harry Potter Opera Cycle’ sans official approval

By James Hebert
UNION-TRIBUNE ARTS WRITER

July 16, 2006

As if magical powers and literary immortality (not to mention a seven-picture Hollywood deal) weren’t enough, the world’s most popular wizard now can add another notch to his broomstick.

Harry Potter has an aria.

He’ll have more soon, as far as Tiffany Moon is concerned. For now, though, the local composer has completed one Potter opera solo. It’s among the first components of what she envisions as a seven-part opera cycle based on the J.K. Rowling series of children’s books.

Moon, who teaches piano and voice at a Rancho Bernardo home studio, is a wizard of ambition: She sees the Potter project as taking up “a good 10 to 15 years of my life.”

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