NYC Opera is Next Stop for Brokeback

Annie Proulx's 1997 short story that became 2005's big screen breakout Brokeback Mountain, is finding its way to the stage. It's being reported that The New York City Opera wants to adapt the story, and Charles Wuorinen has been tapped to compose the operatic incarnation.

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.

Parterre Box, "the queer opera `zine," has chimed in on the announcement; over 10 years ago, James Jorden (who runs the publication) noted that "the world of opera, which depends on a large gay following, [is] still uncomfortable, if not downright dishonest, about the large percentage of gay singers, conductors, and directors."

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on June 9, 2008 10:15 AM

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Guest

sonyactivision, don't you mean he still maintains an orifice? :D

sonyactivision

Heath Ledger still maintains an office and is hopeful for at least a cameo.

bklynd

Fuck Wuorinen, get Del Tredici to do it. (Though, admittedly, I still haven't heard "Haroun and the Sea of Stories." Heard it was Buoringen.)

Snakefist Von Thunderplug

Re #2: "Seriously? I was disturbed. She's a disney princess. It was like seeing my little sister's jugs."

Your little sister has sweet jugs.

As for the article, congratulations. You've found a way to make operas gayer, which is an accomplishment.

I'd rather fire projectile diarrhea on the wall and watch it trickle down to the floor for 3 hours than be forced to see 5 minutes of this horseshit.

Steven

Hathaway also showed off her breasts in havoc, which came about 2-3 months before Brokeback.

Pharmer

^^ Seriously? I was disturbed. She's a disney princess. It was like seeing my little sister's jugs.

Brokeback Mountain might work as an opera.

Strange trend of movie being made into musicals though. Legally Blonde, Tarzan and the Little Mermaid? Weird. They don't look good either.