The Lore
Maestro Vittorio Autocorrettini
Born in 1842 in the village of Borgo-della-Tastiera, young Vittorio was struck, at age nine, by a falling printing press. When he awoke three days later, he could hear — with perfect clarity — the melodrama latent in every mistyped word.
He founded the Royal Academy of Autocorrect Tragedies in 1867 after witnessing a nobleman mean to write “I adore thee” and instead transmit “I abhor thee.” The resulting duel, elopement, and inheritance crisis spanned seventeen counties and inspired his first masterwork, La Messaggeria Funesta.
Today the Academy stages over four million operas per year, each one born of a single user's typographical anguish.
Praise from the Salons
“I typed ‘running late’ and autocorrect gave me ‘ruining Kate.’ The three-act opera the Maestro produced caused me to weep into my espresso for a full day. Five stars.”
“A towering achievement in the canon of correspondence-based tragedy.”
“I sent my husband ‘pick up milk’ and he received ‘pick up Mike.’ The opera they wrote about it is performed nightly in La Scala. We are divorced now.”