Brokeback Mountain Opera

Posted by Sarah Canice Funke Jun 9, 2008

Get ready for singing cowboys: Brokeback Mountain will be turned into an opera in a few years.

The 1997 short story by Annie Proulx won three Academy awards when turned into a film in 2005. Now composer Charles Wuorinen has been commissioned by the New York City Opera to set the story to music.

Wuorinen says that he has been fascinated by the story, which explores the relationship between two cowboys who fall in love when they meet on the fictitious Brokeback Mountain.

The opera will premiere in 2013. It is the second opera the New York City Opera has commissioned from Wuorinen. His first work for the NYC Opera was opened in October 2004. Called Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the work was based on a Salman Rushdie novel.

For more information, please read the Times article.