Editing Roger Waters (section)

=== 2005: Pink Floyd reunion and ''{{lang|fr|Ça Ira}}''  ===

[[File:Pink floyd live 8 london.jpg|thumb|right|Waters (far right) performing with Pink Floyd at Live 8, 2 July 2005|alt=A concert stage lit by purple lighting. Four men are performing on the stage as a crowd stands in front of it. Behind the men are video screens displaying images of vinyl records.]]

[[File:RogerWaters03.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Waters playing "In the Flesh" on his Dark Side of the Moon Tour at Viking Stadion, Stavanger, 26 June 2006|alt=Roger Waters, dressed in black, playing a bass guitar and speaking into a microphone. Behind him are several red vertical video panels.]]

In July 2005, Waters reunited with Mason, Wright, and Gilmour for their final performance together at the 2005 [[Live 8]] concert in London's Hyde Park, Pink Floyd's only appearance with Waters since their final performance of ''The Wall'' at Earls Court London 24 years earlier.{{sfn|Povey|2008|pp=237, 266–267}} They played a 23-minute set consisting of "[[Speak to Me]]/[[Breathe (Pink Floyd song)|Breathe]]"/"[[Breathe (Reprise)]]", "[[Money (Pink Floyd song)|Money]]", "[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)|Wish You Were Here]]", and "[[Comfortably Numb]]". Waters told the [[Associated Press]] that while the experience of playing with Pink Floyd again was positive, the chances of a bona fide reunion would be "slight" considering his and Gilmour's continuing musical and ideological differences.{{sfn|Schaffner|1991|p= 308}} Though Waters had differing ideas about which songs they should play, he "agreed to roll over for one night only".{{sfn|Blake|2008|pp= 382–383}} In November 2005, Pink Floyd were inducted into the [[UK Music Hall of Fame]] by [[Pete Townshend]] of [[the Who]].<ref>{{harvnb|Blake|2008|p= 386}}</ref>

In September 2005, Waters released ''{{lang|fr|[[Ça Ira (opera)|Ça Ira]]}}'' (pronounced {{IPA|fr|sa iˈʁa|}}, French for "it will be fine"; Waters added the subtitle, "There is Hope"), an opera in three acts translated from the late [[Étienne Roda-Gil]]'s French libretto based on the historical subject of the [[French Revolution]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last1= Tsioulcas|first1= Anastasia|title= Waters' New Concept|magazine= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date= 27 August 2005|page= 45|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-BIEAAAAMBAJ&q=ca+ira+Nadine+Roda-Gil&pg=PA45|access-date= 6 May 2012|archive-date= 17 April 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230417070011/https://books.google.com/books?id=-BIEAAAAMBAJ&q=ca+ira+Nadine+Roda-Gil&pg=PA45|url-status= live}}</ref> ''{{lang|fr|Ça Ira}}'' was released as a double CD album, featuring baritone [[Bryn Terfel]], soprano [[Ying Huang (soprano)|Ying Huang]] and tenor [[Paul Groves (tenor)|Paul Groves]].{{sfn|Povey|2008|pp= 324–325}} Set during the early French Revolution, the original libretto was co-written in French by Roda-Gil and his wife Nadine Delahaye. Waters had begun rewriting the libretto in English in 1989,{{sfn|Manning|2006|p= 256}} and said about the composition: "I've always been a big fan of Beethoven's choral music, [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]] and [[Alexander Borodin|Borodin]]&nbsp;...&nbsp;This is unashamedly romantic and resides in that early 19th-century tradition, because that's where my tastes lie in classical and choral music."{{sfn|Blake|2008|p= 392}} Waters appeared on television to discuss the opera, but the interviews often focused on his relationship with Pink Floyd, something Waters would "take in stride", a sign Pink Floyd biographer [[Mark Blake (writer)|Mark Blake]] believes is "a testament to his mellower old age or twenty years of dedicated psychotherapy".{{sfn|Blake|2008|p=392}} ''{{lang|fr|Ça Ira}}'' reached number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Classical Music Chart in the United States.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/2005-10-15/classical-albums|title=Roger Waters: ''Ça Ira''|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=2 January 2013|access-date=17 February 2013|archive-date=20 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220125330/http://www.billboard.com/charts/2005-10-15/classical-albums|url-status=live}}</ref>