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Courtney Love is adding opera singer to her resume. The widow of Kurt Cobain is confirmed to star in an upcoming production called "Kansas City Choir Boy" which is scheduled to play at Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now Festival in New York from January 8 to 17.

"I love the concept and I'm loving the music. I'm playing it constantly. I'm looking to do things that are different," said the Hole vocalist. "I just finished a rock tour of Australia and it was great but I've been doing that for a long time. I wanted to do something challenging."

Composer Todd Almond said it was an opera in a non-traditional way. "When I say 'opera,' I don't mean it's in an operatic style. I mean it in the sense that it's a group of songs that tell a story. I write musicals, I write plays and I write what I call opera, which I think of as a form that opens the minds of both the performers and the listeners," he explained.

The work initially began as a set of individual songs, which later "became a piece about a man and a woman in love in the Midwest," Almond told New York Times. "But then the woman sees something on the horizon that makes her realise that she has a greater destiny, and she follows that."