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By: E de Luna

E de Luna — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:14:29 +0000

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?

By: Jfmurray3

Jfmurray3 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:48:14 +0000

“..we gays know how to eat our young, don’t we?”
That made me giggle in ways it shouldn’t.

By: La Cieca

La Cieca — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:21:46 +0000

Pupi: with any luck, when your opera is broadcast, we can hear Blythe Danner as the intermission commentator.

By: JAG

JAG — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:12:24 +0000

Stephen Costello and Christopher Balduc anyone?

By: Pupi Campo

Pupi Campo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:07:53 +0000

With High School Musical now being a phenom I keep hoping someone will someday give us “70s TV Movie the Opera.” There was a load of these flix that all seems to have a Jill Clayburgh finding out that her B Bostwik husband was a psycho and she fled and was rescued by the local Tom Skerrit sheriff. Add her having a sickness of the week, and you have a whole genre waiting to be set to lofty music and keep the boxoffice happy. Now, to find some suitable singers.

By: Alice Roberts

Alice Roberts — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:09:51 +0000

A friend of mine who lost a lover to the church always claimed he loved Don Carlos best because he could relate to all the principal roles and their emotions….. As I talked him in from a ledge I explained that was why opera lovers love opera, because we can relate. It may not do us much good, but we can relate.

By: armerjacquino

armerjacquino — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:55:08 +0000

logicaltenor- I think you’ve just pitched ‘Zanna, Don’t- The Opera’.

By: david

david — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:10:21 +0000

I assume that Domingo will want to extend his range yet further and so will play one of the teenagers, the other will obviously have to be a trouser-role, so respecting the great operatic tradition. Perhaps the Met can rectify their years of ignoring Podles by offering her the part. As for the mother of one of the boys it would need somebody capable of playing an all-American soccer mom type â€“ if only the Met knew of a soprano like that.

By: H. Milk

H. Milk — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:14:04 +0000

I heart the Logical Tenor

By: The Logical Tenor

The Logical Tenor — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:52:35 +0000

Here’s a proposed alternative ending: They actually end up happy.

No, that’d require too much talent to write. Drama and tragedy are easier to pull off than an uplifting ending. Enough of Brokeback already.

By: rysanekfreak

rysanekfreak — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:23:29 +0000

Speaking of trendy commissions by big opera houses, remember years ago when Bobby McFerren’s Gethsemane was scheduled for the San Francisco Opera? Can someone pour the hot tea about what went wrong there?

By: jatm2063

jatm2063 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:14:57 +0000

I read a bit of his blog. He does rant, doesn’t he. He should make comments here, he’d fit right in. Come to think of it, maybe he already does.

By: Omniscient Muscleboy

Omniscient Muscleboy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:57:04 +0000

Boy we gays know how to eat our young, don’t we? Mothertounge has moments of exquisite beauty and achieves a remarkable catharsis at the end. It’s also considerably ambitious in scope and execution. Would I have chosen Nico Muhly to write an opera based on this or Speaks Volumes? Not necessarily – but the kid certainly understands what makes a great opera (read his essay on Peter Grimes on the Met website at http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/features/detail.aspx?id=3399). As to the choice of Craig Lucas, let’s just all count our blessings that he wasn’t saddled with Terrence McNally.

I’m genuinely excited by the prospect of a music-theater work from Nico Muhly, even if ends up at Lincoln Center Theatre and not the Met. Besides, don’t we all want to see this work reach the stage just so we can read AT’s anguished review of it in the Times?

Getting to know Nico Muhly’s work has been an artistic highlight of a rather dreary summer along with finally seeing La Piscine with Alain Delon. Speaking of Alain Delon, when is some barihunk crazy queen going to turn Rocco and his Brothers into an opera? Jack Heggie, your muse is calling.

By: H. Milk

H. Milk — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:20:29 +0000

We’re going down, ladies, and we only have ourselves to blame…

By: Jfmurray3

Jfmurray3 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:21:20 +0000

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?

By: tannengrin

tannengrin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:48:14 +0000

So they are updating Thomas Mann’s “Tonio Kroeger”?

Sounds more interesting than the Fille plot, and less confusing than Trovatore.

By: kashania

kashania — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:20:43 +0000

I think the storyline is perfectly operatic. .

By: Famous Quickly

Famous Quickly — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:04 +0000

I could sing the Tori Spelling fag hag role *tomorrow*. It’s a question of color and tessitura.

By: Momentous

Momentous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:07:35 +0000

This just in: “The Rise and Fall of Jennifer Anniston and John Mayer.” Tobias Pickering — starring: Patricia Racette. Riveting drama!

By: FlorezFan

FlorezFan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:02:38 +0000

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?

By: La Cieca

La Cieca — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:54:35 +0000

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 PhÃ¨dre.

By: La Cieca

La Cieca — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:50:55 +0000

armerjacquino: Exactly. Followers of the verismo school know that just about any little thing can turn you into a killer: commedia dell’arte, even.

By: armerjacquino

armerjacquino — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:35:48 +0000

‘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.

By: turandot

turandot — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:33:12 +0000

Sounds like a nice evening of light entertainment.

By: Krunoslav

Krunoslav — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:17:53 +0000

Maybe Theo Adam and Peter Schreier can do the Leipzig premiere– with Celestina Casapietra in the Tori “toxic” Spelling role of the obnoxious best friend.

Does anyone here estimate the chances of Muhly’s opera appearing on the Met mainstage as more than one in a billion?

By: dcrazmo

dcrazmo — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:11:07 +0000

Great!!! Gay teenage angst can turn you into a killer. Just the kind of positive image and message the community has been waiting for. Why don’t they just make an opera out of “Boys in the Band” and be done with it?

By: High C's @ 4:20

High C's @ 4:20 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:48:27 +0000

Crap indeed… and i like Yaz’s “I before E except after C” but that was pure crap.

By: Miss Kitty Litter

Miss Kitty Litter — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:38:32 +0000

Has anyone else listened to excerpts from his MotherTongue album on YouTube? What crap. Composing an opera for the Met? Talk about having greatness thrust upon one.

By: balabanov11

balabanov11 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:21:39 +0000

well, if anyone would know about teen cybersex fantasies, it’s probably Nico – in person he looks like an overgrown choirboy from Eton, and talks at lightning speed like a tweener.

By: jatm2063

jatm2063 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:45:35 +0000

Steel can program it in Dallas! It’ll go over so very well with all of the oil baron’s wives.