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'Brokeback Mountain' to premiere as opera in 2013
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Posted on 06/08/2008 9:53:48 PM PDT by pissant
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. ADVERTISEMENT
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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Fabulous
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posted on
06/08/2008 9:53:48 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: pissant
Where’s that picture of “BrokeBarack Mountain” at?
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posted on
06/08/2008 9:57:38 PM PDT
by
smedley64
To: pissant
It’ll bomb with the all soprano cast.
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:00:18 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: jazusamo
No falsettos or castratos?
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:01:14 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: pissant
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate as a ballet?!
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:01:32 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Catch the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon film at a time!)
To: pissant
Elton John to sing HUMPty Dumpty ?
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:03:08 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: pissant
For the sake of diversity they probably allow them.
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:04:32 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: pissant
Gay sheepmen singing opera! How nice!lol
New York City Opera houses, where sheep are sheep and straight men are nervous.
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:05:11 PM PDT
by
upsdriver
To: pissant
you must be thinking of that other f-word
no not that one
or that one
fitting
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:05:57 PM PDT
by
Disciplinemisanthropy
(...and that, people, is what grinds my gears.)
To: pissant
I have an idea about just when they’ll hit the high notes. : )
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:06:45 PM PDT
by
word_warrior_bob
(You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
To: 1066AD
Elton John to sing HUMPty Dumpty ?"Goodbye Norman Gene..."
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:08:34 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
To: pissant
It certainly brings a whole new dimension to “Ride of the Valkyries.”
To: pissant
Libretto:
I’m a Brokeback mountaineer,
My friends all call me queer.
I like to take it in the r**r,
cause I’m a Brokeback mountaineer.
Yeehaa!!!!
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:09:58 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Stop the Obamanation!))))
To: pissant
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:10:08 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I’m an old cow poke
Quite crude and coarse
If they’re ain’t no cows
I’ll poke a horse.
Tra la, tra la....
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:13:13 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Shades of Monty Python’s Lumberjack song...
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:16:39 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: Jeff Chandler
Is that from the musical, Oklahomo?
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:17:23 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Stop the Obamanation!))))
To: Free ThinkerNY
Is that from the musical, Oklahomo?Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are.
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:30:14 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
To: pissant
It's not fabulous. It's Faaaabulous...
To: Jeff Chandler
"squeal, squeal like a pig."
good God man. (washing the brain to remove imagery)
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:37:19 PM PDT
by
robomatik
((wine plug: renascentvineyards.com cabernet sauvignon, riesling, and merlot))
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