Brokeback Mountain Opera Libretto

[miniangel]

I hope this is the right place to put this link. I'm sure someone will shift it if it's not.

Anyway, over on Planet Heath Ledger I have posted my transcription of the opera libretto. I found it was a darn sight easier than trying to read it with all the music If you spot any errors please let me know.

If anyone wants to leave a comment on the link below, you can do so as the thread is open for guest comments (until the spammers find it again )

http://www.heathledgerplanet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=74563#p74563

[Penthesilea]

You typed it all up yourself? That's a labour of love - and a lot of work.
I do have a version of the libretto, but it is incomplete. So I'm gonna go and copy yours, too.
Thank you for sharing the link here!

[miniangel]

My pleasure Yes, I typed it up myself, copying from the score. It was a great way to become familiar with the opera.

Incidentally, I've recently been revisiting my account of the 2007 BBM BBQ where we met, Chrissie. Happy memories of the Rockies and the Bighorns.

[Front-Ranger]

Great to see you around the BetterMost campfire again, M! It's been long over due. I hope the fires have been staying away from your neighborhood.

[miniangel]

Lucky for us they did, Lee, although this summer I've been storing precious items, etc. just in case.

[x-man]

I just got up this morning, checked in to BetterMost as usual, found this site quite by accident, and was blown away.  I had thought my days of crying over BBM had ended--apparently not.

To say the obvious, miniangel has done us a great service in giving us the libretto.  TO ALL MODERATORS: Can't this posting, all 8 pages, be put somewhere special so it will never slip off the Home Page, and always be readily available?  Miniangel's work here has added the libretto to the short story, the film, and From Short Story to Screen Play to be part of the basic "documents" of BBM.  Speaking for all of us, miniangel, we cannot thank you enough.  Now we await the DVD.

Just spectacular, miniangel, just spectacular!

[Front-Ranger]

I have taken the liberty to "sticky" this topic and will inform Lynne, the moderator of this forum, that I have done so.

[SaraB]

What does "sticky" mean? 

[Penthesilea]

What does "sticky" mean? 

To make a topic stay on top of  the topic list of a respective forum/subforum.
In this case, if you go to the forum "All Things Brokeback: Books, Interviews and More", this topic is the first and will stay the first, even if a newer one will be posted.

[SaraB]

Thanks, Chrissi - I've never heard of that!