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Offline delalluvia

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Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« on: June 08, 2008, 03:48:33 pm »
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Offline Ellemeno

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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2008, 03:50:40 pm »
Quote from: delalluvia on June 08, 2008, 03:48:33 pm

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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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2008, 03:51:14 pm »
Meryl!!!!  :)  Brokie adventure in 2013!
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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2008, 04:23:08 pm »
Quote from: Elle on June 08, 2008, 03:51:14 pm
Meryl!!!!  :)  Brokie adventure in 2013!

Oh yes!!! Absolutely.  I think it could be tremendous fun.  So, count me in. 8)



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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2008, 04:27:59 pm »
Oops, I meant to say, Meryl, did you have something to do with this?!!
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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2008, 06:20:06 pm »
Quote from: Elle on June 08, 2008, 04:27:59 pm
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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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2008, 01:32:51 am »
I'll be there!!!!

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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2008, 02:08:23 am »
Quote from: atz75 on June 08, 2008, 06:20:06 pm
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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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2008, 02:29:17 am »
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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Re: Brokeback Mountain - the opera
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2008, 02:30:00 am »
Quote from: belbbmfan on June 10, 2008, 02:29:17 am
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So, Ennis is going to have to sing after all? Hmmm, intriguing.


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