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Brokeback Mountain - the opera
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on June 10, 2008, 02:29:17 am ---So, Ennis is going to have to sing after all? Hmmm, intriguing.
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:laugh: :laugh: Excellent observation Bud.
I really like the idea of this opera, but I'm still having a hard time imagining what it will be like. I definitely can imagine BBM as a play, but the singing part is the hardest aspect for me to imagine at this point.
Ellemeno:
Somehow I can picture Aguirre singing in a low, deep voice, "Ain't got no work for you."
optom3:
--- Quote from: atz75 on June 12, 2008, 01:04:35 am --- :laugh: :laugh: Excellent observation Bud.
I really like the idea of this opera, but I'm still having a hard time imagining what it will be like. I definitely can imagine BBM as a play, but the singing part is the hardest aspect for me to imagine at this point.
I cannot imagine it as an opera either.Having said that one of the most common themes in operas is, love gone wrong/thwarted/lover dies. So from that perspective it fits the genre very well.
I just have a nightmare feeling, that BBM as an opera could easily turn into a Gilbert and Sullivan type farce.
A play, now that I would like.
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Brown Eyes:
The whole first quarter or so of the story... the whole '63/ Brokeback section really feels like one of those classic two-person plays (or plays with very, very few characters) like Waiting for Godot or The Zoo Story. Or, at least I could envision it staged that way theatrically.
optom3:
--- Quote from: atz75 on June 12, 2008, 01:56:09 pm ---The whole first quarter or so of the story... the whole '63/ Brokeback section really feels like one of those classic two-person plays (or plays with very, very few characters) like Waiting for Godot or The Zoo Story. Or, at least I could envision it staged that way theatrically.
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I could really see the first part, in one of those intimate, theater in the round type settings. In that way you would see the characters from all angles, allowing for a much more intimate experience. So much of the film was very subtle,that I think it would take that sort of production to provide the same feeling of being part of it all, in fact even there as voyeurs almost.
I am still struggling with the opera though. As with all these things,time will tell.
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