by mackreed
L.A. Opera to produce “The Fly”
February 7, 2008 at 9:08 am in Music
This is not a hallucination. This is not a joke. This is a dream pop-culture mashup:
Coming to the L.A. Opera this fall: “The Fly,” an opera with music by Howard Shore, libretto by David Henry Hwang, design by Dante Ferretti, conducted by Placido Domingo and directed by David Cronenberg.
I can barely contain my excitement, nor can I conceive of how insanely wonderful this production could be. If you’re familiar with the source material – Cronenberg’s brilliantly squicky 1986 movie with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, you know it has all the requisite themes for great melodramatic opera: love, passion, betrayal and blood …
Add to that: music by Howard Shore, who’s written great movie scores over the past 10+ years including Lord of the Rings (sample, more samples), Ed Wood (sample). and The Cell (sample) not to mention half a dozen Cronenberg productions including “A History of Violence” and “Eastern Promises.”
Libretto by David Henry Hwang (responsible for the under-loved 1998 M. Butterfly that Cronenberg made into a 1993 movie.
Dante Ferretti has handled production design on a broad array of big-budget films, ranging from Gangs of New York and Interview with the Vampire to Il Trovatore and Sweeney Todd.
Placido Domingo is <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=placido+domingo+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=fireforesident genius.
And Cronenberg – well hell. Here’s the cast list with profiles.
Two questions: When do tickets go on sale? And how are they going to design a credible fly mask that Daniel Okulitch can sing through?
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