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Brokeback Mountain - The Opera
Scott6373:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 28, 2007, 02:33:12 pm ---Tell you what, so am I, but it's still fun to think of you and Milo Morris singin' Ennis and Jack.
Hubba hubba. ;D
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Can you picture a 5'7 white man singing "I ain't queer" to a 6'4 black man...that's a visual
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Scott on September 28, 2007, 02:43:06 pm ---Can you picture a 5'7 white man singing "I ain't queer" to a 6'4 black man...that's a visual
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Yeehaw! ;D
I guess you'd have to stand on a stepladder disguised as a tree stump for the dozy embrace. ... ;)
Brown Eyes:
Well, I'll admit that I'm a bit skeptical about this idea too. But, if Proulx has approved it officially, I feel a bit better about it. She seems to know what she's doing when it comes to this story.
;)
Just think of all the different "official" versions of this story there are now including this opera. It's interesting to see it continue to morph and be translated into different media and different interpretations.
Ellemeno:
Yee-Haw-aw-AW-aw-AW-aw-aaaaaawwwwww! :)
I searched YouTube for Charles Wuorinen and only found this - an interview with him on Charlie Rose. It starts at 23:16.
Charlie Rose: January 3, 1996 - First, a discussion with Tanya Melich, author of "The Republican War Against Women", and Arianna Huffington, from "Politically Incorrect", about the role abortion may have in the 1996 election. Then, an interview with choreographer and artistic director of The New York City Ballet Peter Martins and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen about their homage to George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky. Finally, an interview with filmmaker and actor Forest Whitaker about the film "Waiting to Exhale", based on the novel by Terry McMillan.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF3QDEXY6TA[/youtube]
Mikaela:
Wow! I find this very interesting, and fascinating, and heartening.
Thinking about it, the OS might even be more fitting for opera than for a musical, though I would pay good money to see both! Its drama and grand sweeping emotions of "forbidden" love that ends tragically seems very suited to the opera form (from my admittedly limited knowledge about the genre). And so does the few rather spare scenes of the OS, really - opera would be perfect for conveying the emotions of the two, IMO - and it needen't feel compelled to flesh out the OS the way the film does. More of importance goes on inside the characters (especially Ennis) than is ever visible in the action. I think there wouldn't be a dry eye from a perfectly-sung "dozy embrace love duet" even if the word love doesn't appear in it, for instance. And operas can do lots of interesting stuff with the scenery, too - use projected images, film snippets, lightning effects etc. etc. I'm thinking a modern opera could be more inventive and off-the-beaten-track in its presentation than a big-time musical ever could. The latter I envisage having to conform very much to a lot of genre limitations and expectations to keep it palatable to that of necessity wider audience. Having recently seen some of the big musicals on Broadway as well as two NYC operas I am only reinforced in this view.
Atonal opera I admit would be a big challenge for me to get into, but if anything or anyone made me do that, surely it would be Jack and Ennis! :)
Susie may be sceptical of the tenor-sung "Yousonofawhoresonbiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch" , (that made me really grin! ;D ) but I'm equally sceptical of any upbeat Musical-type "Jump-off point stampede" or "Not in Nottingham Riverton" ensemble song&dance numbers. ;)
Well, I'd like to se both genres adapt the story, of course! More, more, more! Never enough! Good on Annie Proulx that she thinks the same. :)
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