This is an in-depth review of the digital opera, Allegro molto con brio king kong which premiered at Dancers' Studio West in Calgary in spring, 1999. The music for the opera is based on Beethoven's 1804 ballet, Die Geschopfe Des Prometheus, and critic Ellis writes about how the multi-media opera draws heavily on the Prometheus myth, investigating the intersection of technology, culture and myth in the modern era, and more specifically, what separates the human from the animal, which in this modern retelling, is technology. All aspects of the opera present a modern twist on the classical: from the choreography of the ballet to sampling and digitally remixing Beethoven's score to the libretto, a panoply of popular culture.