After Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the composer’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel for children which premiered at New York City Opera in 2004, Wuorinen was eager to create another stage work. “He was very impressed with the movie adaptation of the short story,†said Stokar, “and he thought it would be quite marvelous as an opera. In a way, it’s a good old-fashioned love story.â€
It will be City Opera’s second Wuorinen premiere, following “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,†which was based on a Salman Rushdie novel and opened in October 2004.
“What’s impressive about the film adaptation is that it really has an excellent screenplay,†Stokar pointed out. “Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana did a terrific job of turning this little work of prose†— the original “Brokeback Mountain†is barely more than 10,000 words — “into a two-hour movie.
Something similar will have to be done for the opera — for example, the language in the film is not language you can use in an opera. Who that’s gonna be [to write the libretto], of course, it’s much too early to say.â€
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