film for the stage, writes Dan Glaister.
"WHAT am I working on?" asks Jeff Goldblum's character in the it.
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It might not have quite that impact, but 21 years after the release of The Fly, its director, David Cronenberg, is mixed up with a fly.
The Canadian is to direct an opera of his film, a co-production of the Los Angeles Opera and the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. The Cronenberg, Howard Shore, who wrote the music for The Fly the Rings trilogy, and Cronenberg's sister, Denise, who The star-power behind the production is considerable.
It will be conducted by the Los Angeles Opera's general director, Placido by Dante Ferretti, who won the 2005 Oscar for art direction for his Cronenberg has long wanted to make an opera of his film, which itself was a remake of a 1958 film. "You could actually write an 1993. "It could be a sort of a one-set thing, very inexpensive.
" for a single set. The opera is scheduled to make its debut in Paris in July next year and move to Los Angeles in September.
production.
"To be involved in this opera of The Fly is, for me, to travel back not only in time, but to another dimension," he said. "It's a magical reliving of a part of my life, this time different animal. I can't wait to see what happens.
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In the film, which has the tagline "Half man, half insect wooing. The film is a tender love story that leans on the tradition "I always believed The Fly to be a classic opera story," Shore said. "It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.
To bring this work to the opera stage has been a long-time dream."
the worlds of film with those of opera, especially in Los Angeles," he said.
instinct when one listens to a composer's already existing works.
I was a musician who should write an opera.
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