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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 A composer noted for his dramatic, “maximalist” approach to music has been
commissioned to write an opera based on Brokeback
Mountain.
The New York City Opera has commissioned 70-year-old Charles
Wuorinen (pictured) to compose a work based on the story of same-sex attracted cowboys Ennis
del Mar and Jack Twist.
“Ever since encountering Annie Proulx’s extraordinary story
I have wanted to make an opera on it,” Wuorinen said.
“It gives me great joy that [...] New York City Opera have given me the
opportunity to do so.”
New York City Opera says Wuorinen's music is “luxuriant with events, lyrical
and expressive, strikingly dramatic”.
Wuorinen’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an
adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel, had its world premiere at New York City
Opera in 2004.
Brokeback Mountain the opera is
scheduled to premiere in 2013.
Photo: Nina Roberts
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