That bastion of everything traditional in the West End the Royal Opera has made a move very firmly into the 21st century with an innovative collaboration with its potential audience by making use of the incredible success of the online gossip site Twitter.

The Opera house will ask the public to get involved in collaboration to bring a new opera to the theatre. Making use of no more than Twitters maximum 140 word short ?texts? opera buffs may contribute to a libretto.

Once completed the work will be worked on by none other than accomplished composer Helen Porter. At some point after that the Opera House will premiere the piece at their September Deloitte Ignite 09 festival.

The opera House sees this as a venture to get fan?s truly involved in a new way of Opera interaction, actually letting the public become involved in an opera production in a meaningful way.

Twitter is very simple to use so they feel it will not be a problem even for technophobe?s to get their chance to add something to the work. The address on twitter is @youropera and is now live with most people working on the opening scene about a ginger cat and a difficult love affair.

So if you think you have a hidden talent for the joys of opera jump online and get your voice heard.