Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum latest opera piece, ‘The Ride‘, will premiere this Thursday, December 15th at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, NY. The opera chronicles two gay men from different generations who take part in an AIDS charity bike ride from San Francisco, CA to Los Angeles, CA. Bottum commented on it:
“The older generation of gay men who dealt with AIDS as a life threatening disease and were in the trenches for the first generation of the disease helped their friends get through life or death situations. The generation of gay men today who are on PrEP drugs and TRUVADA don’t really view the disease as life threatening. It’s just a different relationship. And that, to me, is interesting.”
For more on that from Bottum, head to Rollingstone.com. Bottum previously penned an opera called ‘Sasquatch, The Opera‘.
