BROKEBACK OPERA!

[Dancin Thru Life]

BROKEBACK OPERA!#1

Posted: 6/8/08 at 5:36pm

'Brokeback Mountain' Opera in the Works

AP
Posted: 2008-06-08 14:21:40

NEW YORK (June - The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards.

The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, City Opera said Sunday. It will be City Opera's second Wuorinen premiere, following "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," which was based on a Salman Rushdie novel and opened in October 2004.

"Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so," Wuorinen said in a statement.

"Brokeback Mountain" is a cowboy romance about two ranch-hand buddies who start a homosexual affair when they meet on the fictional mountain in 1963.

"To love another person is to see the face of God!"

Updated On: 6/8/08 at 05:36 PM

[SirNotAppearing]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#2

Posted: 6/8/08 at 5:45pm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=F0RAoSN-Rjk

[insertclevernamehere]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#2

Posted: 6/8/08 at 5:53pm

SNA, that made my day!

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

[Dancin Thru Life]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#3

Posted: 6/8/08 at 9:01pm

I just came across that announcement again, and the first thing that popped into my mind was:

By the time 2013 rolls around, will anybody still remember or care about this story?

"To love another person is to see the face of God!"

[BustopherPhantom]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#4

Posted: 6/8/08 at 9:03pm

"They're making a musical about a mass murderer who bakes his victims into pies?! FOOLS! DAMNABLE FOOLS!"

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[everythingtaboo]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#5

Posted: 6/8/08 at 11:01pm

I was really hoping here! would announce the Broadway adaptation of Dante's Cove: The Musical.

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

[TooDarnHot]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#6

Posted: 6/8/08 at 11:03pm

would this be the first act of sodomy on stage?

[BobbyBubby]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#7

Posted: 6/9/08 at 12:48pm

The first act of sodomy on stage? Are you kidding?

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118479.html

[lotiloti]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#8

Posted: 6/9/08 at 1:38pm

No, Royal National Theatre's 'Romans in Britain'.

[Brick]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#9

Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:04pm

I agree with those who think this story just doesn't sing. Ennis cannot articulate, or even comes to terms with his emotions. How can he sing them?

[mallardo]

re: BROKEBACK OPERA!#10

Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:05pm

Charles Wuorinen is a composer who, in the past, has featured a very daunting atonal style. I doubt we'll be hearing any soaring "western" motifs or surging romantic melodies.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!