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| So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? | |
| Posted by: Ann 09:46 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| Has anyone here seen it? | |
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| Nathan Lane's Brokeback Mountain Horse Opera | |
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| In reply to: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - Ann 09:46 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| Didn't see the one you're talking about, but I liked the one Nathan Lane introduced on Letterman 12 years ago. It was more of a horse opera though. Anyone else see it? It was sort of a Oklahoma/Anything Goes parody mashup. | |
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| re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:14 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - Ann 09:46 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| I watched it online and liked but did not love it. (I doubt I could ever love Wuorinen, but that's me.) As I recall, AlanScott liked it more. I have linked an excerpt from the world premiere production. |
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| Link | excerpt from medici |
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| re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:45 pm EDT 06/03/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - ryhog 10:14 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| Yes, I liked it a great deal when I watched the telecast, even though I didn't feel the acting problems were generally solved too successfully. But it's certainly not for everyone. Anyone who has an aversion to atonality should stay away. And even a lot of folks who have no aversion to atonality have not liked it. But, yes, your memory is right that I did like it. |
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| re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:07 am EDT 06/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - AlanScott 11:45 pm EDT 06/03/18 | |
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| I don't have an aversion to atonality per se but around here we talk about music being in the service of lyrics/book and to me much of the Brokeback music is oblivious to the words (which have their own problems for me at times) and story. At least my memory is intact. :-) | |
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| Is this really the us premiere | |
| Posted by: dramedy 11:15 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - ryhog 10:14 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| I thought houston opera or some texas company was doing it a few yesrs ago and terrence mcnally was connected to it. Am i completely wrong or was that an entirely different adaptation. | |
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| Yes... | |
| Posted by: garyd 01:25 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: Is this really the us premiere - dramedy 11:15 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| You may be thinking of HGO's "Dead Man Walking". | |
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| Great scott | |
| Posted by: dramedy 06:04 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: Yes... - garyd 01:25 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| For Dallas opera. | |
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| re: Great scott | |
| Posted by: garyd 09:51 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: Great scott - dramedy 06:04 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| Ah. Okay. Read about it, never saw it. We did see "Dead Man...." in Houston but, of course, it was originally done for San Francisco. Not sure why we never saw the original. | |
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| re: Is this really the us premiere | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:21 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: Is this really the us premiere - dramedy 11:15 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| what I linked is the world premiere, in Madrid. I don't know anything about Texas, McNally el al, but I would never say you are completely wrong. :-) | |
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| re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? | |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:51 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - ryhog 10:14 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| Charles Wuorinen is an acquired taste, Pulitzer notwithstanding. I have not acquired it, so should own my bias. That said, I found the production (on line) unexpectedly evocative and beautifully sung. | |
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| re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? | |
| Posted by: AC126748 10:35 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - ryhog 10:14 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| I would say the NYCO production is worth seeing if only for Daniel Okulitch, reprising the role of Ennis that he created in the premiere production. He's an excellent singer who's too rarely heard in New York. The opera itself is not terribly memorable. | |
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| re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? | |
| Posted by: blue70 07:13 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - AC126748 10:35 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| I'm seeing it tomorrow. I wasn't going to go, but I heard Wuorinen interviewed a couple weeks ago (along with Daniel Okulitch and Glenn Seven Allen), and I liked what he had to say. | |
| Link | Review from the Observer |
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| Bad diction | |
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| Posted by: Al10chim 04:47 am EDT 06/03/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - blue70 07:13 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| The Tenor was the only who one we could understand most of the lyrics from. Soprano none. We were seated in the last row of the loge. Cheaper tickets because sub-titles not visible from there. Thought we wouldn't need them. Boy were we wrong. Knew the film so could follow the story which the music had nothing to do with. A total disappointment. | |
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| If it ain't 'Brokeback,' don't fix it | |
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| Posted by: WaymanWong 04:27 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - AC126748 10:35 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| I agree that Daniel Okulitch sings beautifully as Ennis, but the opera adds nothing (even though Annie Proulx, who wrote the original story, did the libretto). The music was too atonal and modernistic to my ears, but maybe I was destined to disagree with Wuorinen, who says the short story is better than the 2005 movie. ''Brokeback'' is about Ennis, a laconic cowboy who has trouble expressing his emotions, so it seems so antithetical for him to be broadcasting his feelings. Part of what made Ennis and Jack so moving was their struggle to find the words for the ''love that dare not speak its name.'' But in an opera, they can't stop singing about it. Anyway, I found this clip of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles doing the ''Brokeback Mountain Suite,'' which is more affecting and haunting. It features songs by Bob Dylan and Bernie Taupin from the film, as well as Gustavo Santaolalla's sublime, Oscar-winning, Western-inspired score. |
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| Link | Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles: 'Brokeback Mountain Suite' |
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| Or you could watch this... | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 11:16 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: So, how's the Brokeback Mountain opera? - AC126748 10:35 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| 😄 Laura, ducking and running |
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| Link | Brokeback 1776 |
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| Love that! Hilarious! n/m | |
| Posted by: LynnO 08:14 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: Or you could watch this... - showtunetrivia 11:16 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| Ha | |
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| re: Or you could watch this... | |
| Posted by: OldTheaterGuy 03:09 pm EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: Or you could watch this... - showtunetrivia 11:16 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
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| Brava, Laura! | |
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