The love story between Ennis and Jack isn’t over yet. New York City Opera announced yesterday that they have commissioned American composer Charles Wuorinen to write an opera based on Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain.” Proulx’s 1997 short story was made into a 2005 feature-length film and garnered multiple Academy Award nominations, including three wins.
The film, set in 1963, is an unlikely love story that follows the relationship of two ranch-hands, Ennis and Jack, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
“Ever since encountering Annie Proulx’s extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so,” Wuorinen, said in a statement. The New York City Opera, not to be confused with the more traditional Metropolitan Opera, champions the work of American composers as approximately one-third of its works are by American composers.
Anxious opera-goers will have to wait until spring 2013 for the premier of the new opera. The Brokeback opera will mark Wuorinen’s second City Opera premiere, in October 2004 Wuorinen premiered “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” which was based on a Salman Rushdie novel. The New York City Opera performs at the State Theater at Lincoln Center. For more information on the City Opera visit www.nycopera.com.
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