It's scheduled to debut next month as part of an opera festival

This week, however, Seven was unable to claim the usual triumvirate of winning the prime time audience share, the news race and the tabloid current affairs race over its rival Nine. Nine's A Current Affair enjoyed a rare win over Today Tonight, thanks to Tracy Grimshaw's interview with the ''family'' of the teenage girl who confessed to a lie detector test on 2Day FM's Kyle Jackie O Show that she had been raped. Granted, the ''family'' turned out to be the girl's aunt and cousin, but the publicity surrounding the interview helped ACA to an average audience of 1.4 million, ahead of Today Tonight's 1.3 million. The rest of the night belonged to Channel Seven, whose overall win was thanks to the 1.9 million for Rafters and 1.5 million for Seven News (as compared to 1.3 million for Nine News). Ten had the second-most watched program of the night with Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation drawing 1.5 million, which was enough to put it into second place in the prime-time audience share. Seven finished with 31.5 per cent of the prime-time audience, ahead of Ten with 25.9 per cent, Nine with 23.8 per cent, the ABC with 15.3 per cent and SBS with 3.6 per cent. WITH TWITTER IN THE CHORUS IN THE tradition of Jerry Springer: The Opera, the Royal Opera House in London is producing a Twitter opera. The entire libretto will consist of Twitter messages, with the public helping to compose the work by contributing at the site twitterroyaloperahouse. It's scheduled to debut next month as part of an opera festival. The company has stressed the tweets don't have to make sense. Like this, from the end of Act One, Scene One: ''William is languishing in a tower, having been kidnapped by a group of birds who are anxious for revenge after he has killed one of their number … The Woman With No Name is off to her biochemistry laboratory Rosetta Stone German to make a potion to let people speak to the birds.'' BIG DAY FOR MICHAEL AND MARLENA JEFFERY ABOUT 500 people who share the belief that, to quote the law, marriage is ''the union of man and woman, to the exclusion of all others'' are expected to mark the inaugural National Marriage Day today. They are expected to converge on the Great Hall at Parliament House in Canberra for a National Marriage Day Breakfast, where it will be announced that the former governor-general Michael Jeffery and his wife, Marlena, are the inaugural Marriage Day ambassadors. The breakfast organiser and national vice-president of the Australian Family Association, Mary-Louise Fowler, said the group would present a petition to parliamentary representatives she hoped would attend the breakfast seeking to make the day official. Presumably she can count on at least one pollie turning up: her brother, Senator Bill Heffernan. WITH IRISH SHOCK JOCKS AUSTRALIA may be yet to master a political scandal worthy of aEuropean nation but when it comes to radio smut it seems we are milesahead - at least of the Irish. The BBC reports Ireland's broadcastingregulator has criticised a radio station for allowing ''offensivelanguage'' to be aired in a sketch about the band Boyzone. A listenercomplained about a broadcast in May on the Colm and Jim Jim Breakfast Show on RTE 2FM, in which actors posing as the singers Ronan Keating and Stephen Gatelydebated how to deal with the problem of an itchy groin after waxing.Airing at just before 9am, the segment also featured a discussion aboutwanting to attack a fellow band member, Mikey Graham, with asnooker cue.

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