/Brokeback-Mountain -Opera2.jpg)
/Brokeback-Mountain-Opera.jpg)
Brokeback Mountain (Ópera)
- Director: Jérémie Cuvillier
- Writer: Annie Proulx; Charles Wuorinen
- Producer: François Duplat
CGiii Comment
A gay opera...! What could be gayer?!? Well, not this.
Let us not beat around the bush...this is utterly atrocious...insultingly so.
The staging is sparse and unimaginative.
The libretto - by Proulx, her first (and, hopefully, last) - is a little perplexing...in that she has no talent for libretto-writing...and, why the additives?!?
But, it's Charles Wuorinen's music that really makes this a miserable experience...there's nothing tuneful, melodious or bearable in the whole 120 agonising, atonal minutes.
And, when dead Jack's shirt goes flying off up towards the heavens at the end...a laughable gasp...of incredulity...what a farce.
...That was not applause, that was the sound of ear-plugs being removed en masse.
Excruciating.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A tragic and secretive romance ensues over many years after two men meet while herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in this opera based on Annie Proulx's short story and its subsequent Oscar-winning film adaptation.
Cast & Characters
Daniel Okulitch as Ennis del Mar;
Tom Randle as Jack Twist;
Heather Buck as Alma;
Heather Esther Minutillo as Lureen;
Ethan Herschenfeld as Aguirre / Hog-Boy;
Celia Alcedo as Alma's mother;
Jane Henschel as Jack's mother;
Ryan MacPherson as Jack's father;
Hilary Summers as Bartender;
Letitia Singleton as Saleswoman;
Gaizka Gurruchaga as Cowboy;
Vasco Fracanzani as Bill Jones;
Titus Engel as Himself - Direction musicale;
Coro y Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real de Madrid as Orchestre et choeur