Brokeback Mountain, the story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for an Oscar-winning film, is to be made into an opera.

The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on the 1997 short story. The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, the company said.

Brokeback Mountain is about two cowboys who start an affair when they meet on a mountain in 1963. The 2005 film version starred the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, and won three Academy Awards.

The company said Wuorinen had accepted an invitation to compose the opera, which will be his second world premiere at City Opera. He also composed Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an adaptation of a Salman Rushdie novel which opened in 2004. "Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it," said Wuorinen, 70.

"It gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so."

oh. em. gee.

Yeah.

I watched the film a 2nd time and like 'Oh.....'

It hits you the first time, but it really is nothing all that great :blink:

It really was a very mediocre film.

The reason it caused such a stir as it had a gay sex scene between 2 hot young, famous actors which never happened in a big budget film before.

I've always maintained that this was a gay film for a straight audience.

I mean their so called tragic romance? Were they seriously expecting an audience to be moved by 2 closet cases who treat their wives like crap before 1 of them gets murdered for being gay.

I mean please.

I was left totally cold by it. It did nothing for me at all.

It did nothing for me either. However, the more I'm pressured into liking something, the less I'll probably like it.

I expected to be in floods of tears when I saw it first. I had zero connection with any of the characters. If anything, it was the wives I felt sorry for!

I was exactly the same way! I just kept thinking that Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams should have killed them.

Yeah, the gays were selfish cowards.

Well, there was a lot against them... but I did feel sorry for them :(

I cried my eyes out the first time I watched it.... think I got carried away though cuz the 2nd I saw it, I thought it was crappy

I loved the film (and the original short story is fantastic), but I wouldn't want to watch an opera version!!

When it started it was the 1960's and they did have a lot against them.

There was no excuse for their cowardice and stupidity and dishonesty by the end of the film as it was the 1980's. They CHOSE to treat their wives like shit in the film.

POINTLESS

I'm thinking this will go the same route as the "Carrie" musical: pretty much nowhere.

Are you serious? This is hicksville middle America not New York! Matthew Shepherd was beaten and crucified for being gay in 1988 in rural Wyoming. Even now in this supposedly enlightened day and age prejudice in areas like that is still rife.

Sometimes I think you sit in your room and divide everything into black and white, and memorise it for use in the real world

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