WHO's heard of this?

Pete Townshend has premiered a new rock opera, The Boy Who Heard Music, at an emerging theatre festival in upstate New York but will not communicate with media about it except by media release and says it is too much in the 'embryonic' stage still to do so. As per a CBC article, the opera is a 'hallucinatory tale about the rise and fall of a band made up of three teenagers from different ethnic backgrounds as seen through the eyes of an aging rock star'. Sounds like art trying too hard to imitate life to be relevant art...perhaps that is why he is shying away from meeting the press? A lack of confidence in his opus? I look forward to reading reviews and impressions of this piece. Hopefully it is heavier on the opera than on the hallucinatory; Tommy was cool when I was sixteen, but now I am more critical of rockers-gone-classical (see older post, Beatle Guise).