‘Footnotes on a Space Opera’ is here!

When aliens land on Earth, opera—one of Western culture’s greatest but most polarizing musical traditions—becomes our planet’s greatest interstellar export.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets Arrival on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

Told from the distant future, this short story imagines a reality in which aliens are opera fans, the representative of the human race is a retired coloratura soprano, and classical music is the ticket to the stars. What could possibly go wrong?