Charles Wuorinen Takes On ‘Brokeback’
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Gérard Mortier, the incoming general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, has commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to create an opera based on “Brokeback Mountain,” Annie Proulx’s short story, first published in the New Yorker magazine and later adapted into a celebrated movie by Ang Lee. The opera is currently scheduled to make its premiere during City Opera’s 2013 spring season.
This piece will be Mr. Wuorinen’s second world premiere at City Opera; the first was another adaptation of contemporary fiction, Salman Rushdie’s novel, “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” which was produced there in 2004.
