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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Open Forum => Topic started by: delalluvia on June 08, 2008, 03:48:33 pm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080608/ap_en_ot/ny_city_opera_brokeback_mountain
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080608/ap_en_ot/ny_city_opera_brokeback_mountain
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NEW YORK - 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.
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Meryl!!!! :) Brokie adventure in 2013!
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Meryl!!!! :) Brokie adventure in 2013!
Oh yes!!! Absolutely. I think it could be tremendous fun. So, count me in. 8)
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Oops, I meant to say, Meryl, did you have something to do with this?!!
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Oops, I meant to say, Meryl, did you have something to do with this?!!
I'm intrigued by this question Elle. :)
Also, it's interesting to try to imagine what the state of the Brokie community will be like 5 years from now.
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I'll be there!!!!
Pete
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I'm intrigued by this question Elle. :)
Also, it's interesting to try to imagine what the state of the Brokie community will be like 5 years from now.
Amanda, do you mean intrigued by the question or by the answer?
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There's a Belgian connection to this. The head (artistic director? I don't know what his exact title is) of the New York City Opera is Gerard Mortier, from Belgium. :)
So, Ennis is going to have to sing after all? Hmmm, intriguing.
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So, Ennis is going to have to sing after all? Hmmm, intriguing.
:D
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So, Ennis is going to have to sing after all? Hmmm, intriguing.
: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.
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Somehow I can picture Aguirre singing in a low, deep voice, "Ain't got no work for you."
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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.
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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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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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.
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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Hmmm--a bit of wariness from the Matrix; Highbrow, yes, but--
http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/47813/ (http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/47813/)
The Approval Matrix: Week of June 23, 2008
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Published Jun 15, 2008
(http://images.nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/matrix080623_740.jpg)
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I did very much enjoy the hummus jokes in Don't Mess with the Zohan.
I wonder why New York found the BBM opera toward the despicable end?