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The current issue of The Advocate includes an interview with adorable 27-year-old bedhead Nico Muhly about his next composition project, an opera “based on a true Internet romance/friendship between two teenage boys that ended in one of the two stabbing the other to death.” Muhly’s “teen gay Internet sex drama,” to a libretto by Craig Lucas, is co-commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theatre. Meanwhile Muhly is touring in support of his new CD Mothertongue
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Pupi: with any luck, when your opera is broadcast, we can hear Blythe Danner as the intermission commentator.
“..we gays know how to eat our young, don’t we?”
That made me giggle in ways it shouldn’t.
I’ll Take Manhattan” might start the TV movie genre rolling good, but someones will have to sing Maxi and Cutter. And a Rigoletto with Rig and a youngish Spart gladeyeing each other might be interesting. Has anyone in Euro staged Rig with this “gay” angle?