“Next season ‘Brokeback Mountain’ will finally make its way to New York, to the opera company that commissioned it,” the New York City Opera, writes Michael Cooper in Friday’s (5/26) New York Times. “The new group that reorganized City Opera and brought it out of bankruptcy announced Wednesday that it would give ‘Brokeback’ [by Charles Wuorinen] its United States premiere in the spring of 2018, at the end of its second full season back in the business of staging operas…. The season will open Sept. 6 with … Puccini’s ‘La Fanciulla del West,’ at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. The company will continue its Ópera en Español series with a mariachi opera, José Martinez’s ‘Cruzar la Cara de la Luna.’ It will bring back a relative rarity, Montemezzi’s ‘L’Amore dei Tre Re.’ … ‘Brokeback’ … will also serve as the second installment in what the company is calling its ‘L.G.B.T. Pride Initiative.’ (The first installment comes next month with the New York premiere of Peter Eotvos’s ‘Angels in America.’)” Also planned during the season is a chamber version of Dolores Claiborne by composer-in-residence Tobias Picker, and “a double bill of two short operas based on the Pygmalion myth—one by Donizetti and the other by Rameau.”
Posted May 26, 2017
