Upping the ante on the Elvish power ballad performed in the Lord of the Rings-inspired musical Fellowship!, Dutch sci-fi fans will stage the world's first Klingon opera next month.

The opera, titled u, plays at the Zeebelt Theater in The Hague, Netherlands, from Sept. 9 through 12.

The organizers have even extended an invitation to the Klingons to attend a special performance of the opera. Mark Okrand, inventor of the Klingon language, recorded an inter-galactic invite that was transmitted from a de-commissioned telescope station, as documented in the clip embedded below. They have yet to receive any RSVP's from outer space.

Three years in the making, u includes instruments, pictured above, that have been specially crafted for the Zeebelt theater production.

Taking his cue from the notion that Star Trek's fantastical warrior race "loves opera," u creator Floris Schönfeld, head of the KlingonTerranResearchEnsemble, teased the production at FedCon 2010, then videotaped comments from attendees. In the clip below, one fierce attendee explains in Klingon that she'll try to attend the opera once she slays her enemies.

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