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Title: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: Lord Undies on June 08, 2008, 02:04:44 PM

It won't be over till the stretched rectum sings....

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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 Other  Entertainment  Photos


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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.

http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews/General%20Entertainment/20080608/NY_City_Opera_Brokeback_Mountain_20080608.xml&cat=entertainment&subcat=&pageid=1
Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: Wretched Excess on June 08, 2008, 02:45:52 PM
How will they be able to sing if their mouths are all full?
Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: bijou on June 08, 2008, 02:49:05 PM
That's a good idea, it will bring in a whole new gay audience who wouldn't traditionally be interested in cowboy stories.  :lmao:
Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: Mr Mannn on June 08, 2008, 04:47:51 PM
The movie was only shown in selected areas with a guaranteed audience.
And they bragged that they filled  the theaters-yeah in gay cities.

Operas are a far different...they require continuous successful ticket sales to pay for the production. All this will garner is a few sold out nights with empty houses thereafter.

Its DOOMED.
Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: jendf on June 08, 2008, 07:24:36 PM
They should pair this up with the forthcoming Inconvenient Truth opera.

The result will be the shittiest night of entertainment EVER.
Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: RobJohnson on June 08, 2008, 07:41:06 PM
Well alot of fags like opera.
Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: RobJohnson on June 08, 2008, 07:52:26 PM
Quote from: Wretched Excess on June 08, 2008, 02:45:52 PM
How will they be able to sing if their mouths are all full?


 :rotf:



Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: Freeper on June 08, 2008, 08:07:20 PM
Quote from: jendf on June 08, 2008, 07:24:36 PM
They should pair this up with the forthcoming Inconvenient Truth opera.

The result will be the shittiest night of entertainment EVER.

Series they have an Irritating errr inconvenient truth opera coming out?
Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: jendf on June 08, 2008, 08:18:52 PM
Quote from: Freeper on June 08, 2008, 08:07:20 PM
Quote from: jendf on June 08, 2008, 07:24:36 PM
They should pair this up with the forthcoming Inconvenient Truth opera.

The result will be the shittiest night of entertainment EVER.

Series they have an Irritating errr inconvenient truth opera coming out?

Unbelievably, yes. Link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4087329.ece)
Title: Re: `Brokeback Mountain' to Become Opera
Post by: JohnnyReb on June 09, 2008, 10:32:21 AM
I dislike most operas. Will it be over when the fat drag queen sings?