An opera based on an '80s remake of a '50s sci-fi classic. Conducted by Placido Domingo. Music by Howard Shore and directed by David Cronenberg, both of whom worked on 1986 classic. Currently playing in Paris and set to hit in Los Angeles in September. Well, that takes care of the what, when and who. All that leaves us is the how and the why why
why? The original story is pretty melodramatic, but opera? Color me ignorant, but I didn't realize until reading the
Guardian's review of
La Mouche (if only it was an opera about
La Bouche) that Broadway wasn't the only place good movies go to be turned into dancing and prancing.
Dancer In The Dark and
Lost Highway were also transformed into operas, and the New York City Opera hopes to give
Brokeback Mountain the same treatment in 2013. But hey, who cares about the source material if the final product is good, right? Well, it doesn't look like
La Mouche is knockin' 'em dead in Paris.
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