A modern opera adaption of Brokeback Mountain is set to open in Madrid later this week, AFP reports:
The Canadian bass-baritone Daniel
Okulitch [right] as the hesitant Ennis and American tenor Tom Randle
[left] as his devoted Jack play out their tale of secret love in
homophobic 1960s Wyoming against a photographic backdrop of brooding
mountains
At a dress rehearsal ahead of last
night's world premiere, their voices soared over New York composer
Charles Wuorinen's score, the orchestra sounding ominous and frenetic by
turns as the doomed romance moved to its climax.
"The whole opera is about a typical kind
of impossible situation, a tragic situation," said Wuorinen, who called
on the writer Annie Proulx, author of the novella on which the film was
based, to write the libretto.
"In this case, it's two people who in
some way want to have a relationship which in their time is forbidden by
society," Wuorinen told AFP.
"That's a very traditional operatic problem to deal with."
The English-language production will be premiering at Madrid’s Teatro Real.
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