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Brokeback Mountain to Premiere as Opera

Brokeback Mountain courtesy Focus Features

Brokeback Mountain is coming to the stage as an opera.

New York City Opera commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to set the cowboy romance to music. A 2013 premiere is planned.

The 2005 film adaptation of Annie Proulx's story that starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal won three Academy Awards. — J.R. Whalen

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Jun 9, 2008 12:08 PM

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I'm having trouble envisioning a Brokeback starring two burly, barrel-chested opera guys. It'd be as if Randy Quaid had instead landed a lead. (This is where an opera buff enlightens me that some male singers are in fact lean and mean and Gyllenhall-esque.)
Posted by Matt Webb Mitovich Jun 9, 2008 1:48 PM Report Abuse

I don't know if I qualify as an opera "buff", but I have attended several productions at New York City Opera over the past few years and can confirm that there are now lead male and female opera singers in all sizes, ranging from thin to hefty. They don't all look like Pavarotti.
Posted by gghwc Jun 9, 2008 3:25 PM Report Abuse

An opera? Not a Broadway musical?
Posted by DaMess Jun 10, 2008 2:10 AM Report Abuse

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