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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Brokeback Mountain set for opera
FilmDrunk.com found this 6/9/2008 on news.bbc.co.uk [flag]
Brokeback Mountain, the story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for an Oscar-winning film, is to be made into an opera. The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on the 1997 short story. The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, the company said. Brokeback Mountain is about two cowboys who start an affair when they meet on a mountain in ... [link]

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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: THE OPERA
Published 6/9/2008 at FilmDrunk.com
... "Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it," said Wuorinen, 70. [BBC] ...

"Brokeback Mountain" becoming an opera.
Published 6/9/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
From BBC News: Brokeback Mountain, the story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for an Oscar-winning film, is to be made into an opera. The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on the 1997 short story. The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, the company said. Upcoming operas adapted from films: "The Fly," based on David Cronenberg's 1986 film, is set to have its world premiere in Paris on July 2nd. Al Gore's ...

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