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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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‘Great!!! Gay teenage angst can turn you into a killer. Just the kind of positive image and message the community has been waiting for.’
It’s not the artist’s job to provide ‘positive images’. It’s the artist’s job to create works on subjects, and about characters, that interest him, or her.
armerjacquino: Exactly. Followers of the verismo school know that just about any little thing can turn you into a killer: commedia dell’arte, even.
Krunoslav: are these Lincoln Center Theater collaborations intended for the Met stage anyway? Much more likely they would end up at the Mitzi Newhouse in the tradition of the immortal Syllabaire pour Phèdre.
Oh, I know who could be cast in it. What was that kid’s name who lip-synched Salome in his bedroom in a wig? Zauscher?
This just in: “The Rise and Fall of Jennifer Anniston and John Mayer.” Tobias Pickering — starring: Patricia Racette. Riveting drama!
I could sing the Tori Spelling fag hag role *tomorrow*. It’s a question of color and tessitura.
I think the storyline is perfectly operatic. .
So they are updating Thomas Mann’s “Tonio Kroeger”?
Sounds more interesting than the Fille plot, and less confusing than Trovatore.
Ah, Famous Quickly, I hope you’ll also sing in the Wainwright opera.
Nico is this year’s Rufus.
Who will be next year’s Nico?
We’re going down, ladies, and we only have ourselves to blame…