Brokeback Mountain - The Opera

[Artiste]

Thanks moremojo!

At least we can hope for better pro-gay?? !! Some parts... bettered or added ones?

And a less violent Opera, because the BM movie is TOO violent??

Hugs!

[moremojo]

Well, opera is brimming with violence and death, so I wouldn't look to this production to lessen that aspect of the story. Jack's death (a violent one, whether accidental or homicidal) is crucial to the tale and theme.

[Artiste]

As you say, the story of violence certainly fits it for an opera!

So, an opera will be an added or repeated feature!

More can be said about another BM movie than an opera therefore?

Hugs!

P.S., one thing for sure: an opera can maybe make think more of an upper class (and middle) about gay life?

[Artiste]

WE, gay men, need this BM movie or Annie's story as a gay opera !

[Ellemeno]

I just wrote to Wuorinen's manager, asking if there is any further news on this.  I'll let you know if I get a response.

[Brown Eyes]

I just wrote to Wuorinen's manager, asking if there is any further news on this.  I'll let you know if I get a response.

That's great Elle!  I think many of us have been very curious about this for quite a while.  It'll be great if you are able to find out more about the status of this project/ concept.

[Ellemeno]

I got a response from Howard Stokar (Wuorinen's manager):

"Check back on 9 June...a press release will be issued that day!"

[Brown Eyes]

I got a response from Howard Stokar (Wuorinen's manager):

"Check back on 9 June...a press release will be issued that day!"

Well!  That's certainly intriguing... and at least we won't have to wait too long.

It's nice that he replied so quickly too.

[Artiste]

Waiting...

au revoir !

WE WANT MORE BM !!

[BBM-Cat]

'Brokeback Mountain' to premiere as opera in 2013

June 8, 2008, 1:07 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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.

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=317952