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‘Brokeback Mountain’ Goes OperaticPosted on Jun 9, 2008
“Brokeback Mountain” is heading to the opera. The short story by Annie Proulx that inspired Ang Lee’s 2005 big-screen love story between cowboys Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist will be adapted for the New York City Opera by Charles Wuorinen, according to Variety, and is slated to premiere in all its operatic glory in the spring of 2013.
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By jack, June 19 at 12:01 am #
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The point none of these posts has managed to address is the form this opera will take - knowing the music of Charles Wourinen, I can only say that this will be one challenging piece for anyone who encounters it - those boys may have been gay, but they were still good ol’ boys—setting the story and characters in the abstract, atonal musical language of Mr. Wourinen, a composer so committed to his academic austerity, there’s little chance he’ll change it - this will be one surrealistic bull ride, you can bet your bottom dollar - could make for good art (remains to be seen), but will certainly bomb at the box office - fine art usually does anyway unless it’s collectible - nevertheless this one’s got a snowball’s chance - however, no doubt massive grant funding is already secured.
Report thisBy Karolee, June 13 at 1:29 pm #
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Con Yankee and Paul Easton, your bigotry is showing. You might call it personal opinion, but most of us see it for what it is - irrational hatred and prejudice. Without the blindness of bigotry, you would be able to appreciate the artistry of the movie. The acting was excellent, the directing was fabulous, and the plot wasn’t in any way thin unless you can’t appreciate subtlety - or if you missed the point of the movie entirely, which apparently Con Yankee did if he could even think of it as comedy. Con Yankee, you just go watch that grass grow if that’s all your brain can handle.
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, June 13 at 4:56 am #
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So there is no room for personal opinion with out the attacks from the the defenders of PC. This is like Hillary’s loss blamed on sexism.
IMHO it was a lousy movie, The actors were unbelievable, and the plot was thin.
Come on critics is this movie up to the standards of “Boys in the Band” The series “Queer as folk” or “The Band played on?”
Report thisBy paul easton, June 12 at 7:42 pm #
i seriously question whether these brokeback (breakballs) mountain knockoffs are a good idea. the fags will love them certainly, but is it wise to blast away so visciously and crudely at the rural people who idolize cowboys? or is it simply hastening the dissolution of what polity remains to us into the squabbling hatreds of a thousand petty grouplets?
Report thisBy John Crandell, June 12 at 3:20 am #
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Hey Conservative Yankee: take some Ex Lax; it might change your life.
Report thisBy troublesum, June 11 at 2:46 pm #
You’re so right Con Yankee; people being killed on the street because of their sexual orientation is my kind of comedy too.
Report thisBy CJ, June 10 at 4:25 pm #
What culture?
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, June 10 at 8:10 am #
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This is as interesting as the remake of the Brady Bunch. Brokeback Mountain was possibly the worst movie I ever paid to see.
Bland, uninteresting, wandering, without adult plot. If I was still in Junior High School, I could have enjoyed it as comedy. If this is the best depiction of life as a gay cowboy, I’d rather see an opera about growing grass in Marin County.
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