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Brokeback Mountain - The Opera
BBM-Cat:
"Brokeback Mountain" writer Annie Proulx has given the go-ahead to an opera based on her story about the two gay cowboys.
Source: http://www.bgay.com/bnews/news70925_brokeback_mountain_the_opera.htm
moremojo:
That's pretty amazing! A musical would be hard enough to pull off, but an opera would be even more challenging. I've not heard of the composer before. I wonder who will serve as librettist--Ennis will be a very difficult character to convey through musical drama, and I imagine the creators here will be compelled to make him more vocally expressive.
Kd5000:
Welll, there is usually quite a bid of tradegy in operas. Certainly, BBM has that aspect. A western as opera has been done before. I saw THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE, quite good.
I wonder if they will expand or add on certain aspects and what scenes that might be left out. Jack's confrontation with his father-in-law at Thanksgiving, how would you do that. Obviously operas are a very different art form in comparison with films. IT shall be interesting, to say the least. I hope it can be as good as the movie.
moremojo:
An operatic trivia question: Can anyone name the opera featuring the form's first openly gay male character and its composer? Bonus points for naming the character and the singer who created the role! :D
Meryl:
--- Quote from: moremojo on September 27, 2007, 12:46:09 am ---An operatic trivia question: Can anyone name the opera featuring the form's first openly gay male character and its composer? Bonus points for naming the character and the singer who created the role! :D
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I'm guessing "Death in Venice" by Benjamin Britten, starring Peter Pears as Aschenbach (though I wouldn't describe him as openly gay). :)
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