Tag: Brokeback Mountain
'Lullaby of Broadway...in the Opera House? Lyric of Chicago Presenting 'The Sound of Music'
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'Charles Wuorinen & Annie Proulx on Brokeback Mountain, the Opera
"The story embodies a contemporary version of an eternal and universal human problem: Two people who are in love but who can't get it together, who can't make it work," Wuorinen, 75, said before a dress rehearsal in the run-up to the opera's world premiere in Madrid on Tuesday. -
'Opera Composers Look to Best-Selling Books, Popular Movies for Inspiration
A list of opera premières scheduled over the next few years reads like a list of best-selling books or popular movies: 'Brokeback Mountain,' 'Dolores Claiborne,' 'Cold Mountain,' 'The Shining,' 'The Manchurian Candidate.'