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Al Gore: The Opera
I think I'll wait for the Bugs Bunny version:
The legendary La Scala opera house in Milan has commissioned a full-length work to be based on [Al Gore's] book, An Inconvenient Truth, and the Oscar-winning documentary of the same title.
La Scala's artistic director, Stephane Lissner, told a press conference the new opera had been commissioned from an Italian composer, Giorgio Battistelli. He said it would be staged in 2011.
|5.31.08 @ 12:03AM|#
Wow, two of my least favorite things (Al Gore and opera)
combined into one big oozing shit sandwich.
...Well, opera isn't that bad...so it can be the
bread.
modd|5.31.08 @ 12:11AM|#
Finally a fat person to be played and sung by a fat opera star. Art does imitate life.
|5.31.08 @ 12:19AM|#
or a man sometimes described as the world's most famous
loser, Al Gore is quite a winner. Since the start of last year
alone, he has picked up...etc. etc. blah blah.
Until Rush, or The Who, or Pink Floyd, etc. (I guess I'll throw in
The Kinks just because this is a Jesse Walker post ;) has dedicated
a concept album to your idea, you haven't yet "made it".
Speaking of contemporary self-consciously-art music with
contemporary theme: The Katrina Ballads, a piece setting quotes
from people during the crisis. reply to this
dead_elvis|5.31.08 @ 12:23AM|#
Uhhhh, hello server squirrels. Link didn't show up, and
something seems to be seriously fucked with preview*. Here it
is:Brownie,
you're doing a heck of a job.
*Oops. Jeez, you leave out one quote, and everything goes
haywire.
Article about it at Yale Alumni magazine.
Guy Montag|5.31.08 @ 1:17AM|#
Deja Vu all
over again
In related news, the Star Trek theme song guy just died and some
fellow who spoke at the Libertarian Party Convention is on Coast to
Coast live as I write. Added bonus: there is a "peeping tom ET"
lurking around.
Can we get more Yeti funding now?
|5.31.08 @ 3:05AM|#
First, we find the worst play ever written! Then, I raise two
million dollars. Next, we open on broadway, and then we close on
broadway! It's brilliant, bloom: brilliant!
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=2411094&id=2411127&s=143441
-jcr
alexis|5.31.08 @ 3:18AM|#
uh, yeah John C - problem is all the rubes will lap this stuff up. Sadly this will be the most popular opera of the 21st century, i can guarantee it. People will be walking down the aisles selling carbon indulgences to the audience. Oy.
|5.31.08 @ 3:28AM|#
If the songs are as good as "Sweeney Todd", color me excited.
The concept behind this album seems fitting for prog rock. On
another note, I must be the only person here who likes Al Gore.
Overshadowed by Bill Clinton, losing an election to Dubya. Poor
guy.
Full disclosure: It should be noted that Al Gore seemed downright
personable in "An Inconvenient Truth", but then memories were still
fresh of John Kerry on the campaign trail.
Guy Montag|5.31.08 @ 7:54AM|#
By the time this opera hits the stage it may well resemble
The Aristrocrats. Not the Penn Gilette movie, the
joke.
I wonder if human sacrefice will be includes in the theory behind
countering AGW by then . . .
Stephen Macklin|5.31.08 @ 8:58AM|#
Do these people have any idea how much carbon will be generated
by this monstrosity?
The limo's on opening night alone will increase global temperatures
by 3 degrees.
Episiarch|5.31.08 @ 9:10AM|#
Off topic, but did anyone know that Mickey Kaus links
fucking LoneWacko and uses him as a
seemingly ReliableSource?
The ImmigrationNuts must be contagious or something.
|5.31.08 @ 9:27AM|#
I don't know. Why do Italian tanks have rear view
mirrors?
Why do ergonomic
keyboards have rear view mirrors?
|5.31.08 @ 12:30PM|#
I must be the only person here who likes Al Gore.
Have you met joe? I would imagine not. If Gore ate a Chinese baby
on live TV, joe would be making excuses before the blood had dried
on his chin. His man-crush is embarrassing.
Episiarch|5.31.08 @ 12:34PM|#
joe's real man-crush is on Obama, not Gore. Get your man-crushes
straight, NutraSweet.
See how I defend you, joe? Where's the appreciation?
|5.31.08 @ 1:41PM|#
I'm just glad that someone is finally bringing environmental concerns to the wealthy, elitist culture-snobs of the world.
Naga Sadow|5.31.08 @ 2:07PM|#
If the opera opens in January I think I will already know what
the reviews will say.
Best opera of the year! Plus a free copy of "An Inconvenient
Truth".
Naga Sadow|5.31.08 @ 2:33PM|#
Andy Craig,
Simple. You raise Paveratti from the dead and make him perform.
|5.31.08 @ 2:39PM|#
I saw "Phantom of the Opera" once. That's my sum total of operatic knowledge, so a Paveratti joke goes straight over my head.
|5.31.08 @ 4:28PM|#
How the hell do you make an opera out of a slide
show?
Why should that be so hard? They already made a music video out of a
newspaper column.
|5.31.08 @ 5:00PM|#
I imagine that the documentary about what George Bush spent that time doing, set to opera music, would be reminiscent of a Moliere comedy.
BakedPenguin|5.31.08 @ 5:27PM|#
joe - Maybe if it was about Cheney (The Misanthrope). It was Dostoyevsky who wrote The Idiot.
|5.31.08 @ 10:27PM|#
"He said it would be staged in 2011."
That's being a bit optimistic, isn't it? Didn't Prince Charles (the
English Al Gore?) say we've only got 18 months left?
By the way, was it ever proven that joe and jennifer are the same
person?
|6.1.08 @ 9:23AM|#
By the way, was it ever proven that joe and jennifer are the
same person?
It has been proven that we are not. People have met Jennifer.
|6.1.08 @ 11:58AM|#
Not even close!
I used to look like Daniel Day Lewis in "In the Name of the
Father."
Now I look like Jeb Bush at a 2AM hurricane announcement.
How the hell did THAT happen?
|6.1.08 @ 12:36PM|#
Epi, I prefer Annie Green Springs wine myself.
peach creek, plum hollow, and cherry orchard.
seventeen dollars a case
|6.1.08 @ 6:11PM|#
The dirtiest look I ever got was when I bought one of each
flavor of MD 20/20 at the Greenbelt co-op.
Shit, lady, YOU sell the stuff!
|6.1.08 @ 7:05PM|#
While we are on the subject of top shelf hootch, I would feel like a real snob if I didn't mention Champale, which i believe would be the drink of note if Sex in the City was a show about men.
|6.1.08 @ 11:32PM|#
The dirtiest look I ever got was when I bought one of each flavor of MD 20/20 at the Greenbelt co-op.
Wait a minute...I thought Mad Dog 20/20 was involved in 85% of violent crime ;)
|6.2.08 @ 10:13AM|#
The dirtiest look I ever got was when I bought one of each
flavor of MD 20/20 at the Greenbelt co-op.
That sounds like the beginning of a really good story of debauchery
and debasement, joe. Don't leave us hanging!
|6.2.08 @ 11:31AM|#
Make sure to bring your beer to the opera in a can, in case they use a coloratura soprano.
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