Jun 18th, 2008 · Famed opera house La Scala has commissioned an opera based on Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth. The New York City Opera is working a version of the movie Brokeback Mountain. Nick Scholl of trrill.com talks about what these works might sound like, and about other modern operas that involve current events.
Keywords: mountains · modern · movies · Opera · Al Gore · Em · emanate · Scholl · Commission · Inconvenient Truth · La Scala · New York City Opera
Sep 11th, 2007 · Browse the operatic canon, and you'll find the black experience in America doesn't exactly stand out. The typical opera audience isn't bursting with color either. The New York City Opera is trying to change that.
Keywords: audience · America · Opera · operatic · canon · New York City Opera
