Brokeback: The Opera?
Gay.
Last week we reported that Italy’s La Scala opera house plans to stage an adaptation of Al Gore’s eco-doc An Inconvenient Truth. We reported it because it was an incredibly stupid story, and we like to make fun of things. Well apparently operas are the new theme park rides, because today it was announced that the New York City Opera has commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to pen an opera based on Annie Proulx’s cowboys-in-love story Brokeback Mountain.
This one makes slightly more sense than An Inconvenient Truth. It’s a tragedy, as are most operas (to sit through at least); it’s about eternal love; there’s drama, death and last but not least, hot gay sex. But let’s get real here. Opera and cowboy hats do NOT mix. So if they can figure out how to do this thing without the cowboys but leaving all the hot gay sex in tact, I think they’re on to something. Otherwise, they’re just giving people from the heartland yet another reason to hate New York.
Brokeback: The Opera is scheduled to premiere in 2013 (uh, it takes 5 years to write an opera? Nonsense). This will be the second adaptation Pulitzer-winner Wuorinen has composed for the New York City Opera, the first being Haroun and the Sea of Stories, based on the Salman Rushdie novel (not the one where a dude fucks Mohammed up the ass, alas). I hope to Crom this is the last story I ever have to write about opera.
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