variety.com - 9/30/2008
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NYC Opera commissions composer New York City Opera has commissioned composer Philip Glass ("Koyaanisqatsi," "The Hours") to pen an opera about Walt Disney, to be staged in collaboration with Brit legit troupe Improbable. Opera, planned to kick off City Opera's 2012-13 season, will be based on ...
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Philip Glass Puts Walt Disney In His Sights
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Philip Glass will compose an opera based on the last few months of the life of Walt Disney, Variety says.
The piece, which is commissioned by the New York City Opera, will be performed in collaboration with Britain's Improbable Theater Group.
As is typical with Glass with films like "Koyaanisqatsi," it will take an offbeat approach to the Disney life, telling it though the eyes of a fictional Austrian cartoonist who worked for him. It will be based on Peter Stephan ...
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