However, besides being an arts and entertainment company, Southern Time Productions is also a social innovator. Southern Time Productions is a music and film production company based in Toronto. A ‘tetralogy’ is a four-part movie, and we at Southern Time Productions aim to produce and release the four films of the tetralogy over the 2020s. They aim to create a demand for the ‘Southern Time Tetralogy’ to begin production. The Southern Time Band, founded in 2018, is a group of professional musicians (from Toronto) whose sole intention is to generate a global audience for their unique brand of rock opera-style music.

‘Southern Time’ was an actual multimedia stage production in 2005 in Vancouver, Canada, but was only musically-manned by freelance musicians at that time. The ‘Southern Time Band’ ( IS a rock opera band to become famous for promoting an actual rock opera ( It is also a local band for hire in Toronto or Ontario. And then bands/orchestras that play for musical theatre/rock opera works of art, whether on or off the film (e.g., Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’) could be considered ‘rock opera bands.’ However, they are really just hired musicians making gig money. Still, their songs are simply in a symphonic ‘progressive rock’ nature, and their albums are of the ‘concept’ song cycle variety. Other rock bands who have a ‘rock opera feel,’ such as Queen and the Moody Blues, did not compose or produce a rock musical theatre production onscreen or off. Still, they also recorded (and are mostly known for) albums that are solely in the music medium. Many famous rock bands (e.g., Pink Floyd, The Who, Alice Cooper, Meat Loaf) have produced actual rock operas in cinematic form. The Difference between Rock Bands and Rock Opera BandsĮveryone knows what ‘rock bands’ are, which is a vast musical category in and of itself, but what about ‘rock opera bands?’ Is there even such a thing? Wikipedia classifies a rock opera as “a rock music album or stage production that intends to evoke the sense of music drama commonly associated with opera.” But what of ‘rock opera bands?’ There isn’t even a page in the “wiki of all veritable knowledge” (LMAO) for ‘rock opera bands.’

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