A Teenage Opera: In July, 1967, An Excerpt From A Teenage Opera was released as the first part of A Teenage Opera by various artists, which was released later that year. Orfeo 9 became a double album and a film under the musical direction of future Academy Award winner Bill Conti. It became the first ever staged original Italian rock opera when it debuted in January 1970. later went on to write and stage the work Orfeo 9 at the Sistina Theater in Rome. While Then an Alley, an adaptation of 18 Bob Dylan songs made to fit into a scenic background, made a moderate splash in its country of origin, it went completely unnoticed elsewhere in the world. Then an Alley, also known as The Beat Opera, was conceived and staged by Tito Schipa, Jr, composer and director, son of the tenor Tito Schipa, at the Piper Club in Rome, Italy, in May 1967. Later that year, The Who released their first attempt at rock opera, the nine-minute six-part track " A Quick One, While He's Away" from their album A Quick One. 
Kit Lambert, the Who's co-manager and producer, is then said to have exclaimed "Now there's an idea!". Townshend is said to have played a comedy tape to his friends called Gratis Amatis, and one of his friends is said to have made the comment that the odd song was a rock opera.
The Jedition of RPM Magazine (published in Toronto) notes that " Bruce Cockburn and Mr Hawkins are working on a Rock Opera, operating on the premise that to write you need only 'something to say'." The Cockburn / Hawkins rock opera seems not to have been completed, though some songs from the project may be among the Cockburn and Hawkins compositions that appeared on 3's a Crowd's 1968 album, Christopher's Movie Matinee.Īlternatively, the term rock opera may have originated at an informal gathering of Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, and some friends at some point that same year (i.e., 1966).
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