According to Variety, composer
Philip Glass is creating an opera about Walt Disney. The story "imagines the last months of Disney as seen through the eyes of a fictional Austrian cartoonist who worked for him."
I seriously cannot wait to see what the heck this opera looks like.
For a publicity stunt at London's Royal Opera House, the controversy may not be over 'til that fat lady, you know whats. It's elite vs. lowbrow, and it's hard to see who's in the right.
First there was the
odd news that an Italian composer is turning the Al Gore power point presentation about global warming into an opera. Now there's news that
Brokeback Mountain will get similar treatment. The New York City Opera has commissioned a composer to turn the short story that inspired the popular film into an opera.
Nope, not a joke (at least, I don't think it is!): Al Gore's
An Inconvenient Truth will be made into an opera by Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli. The production will debut in Milan in 2011. As The Independent explains it, "It began life as a slide show before mutating into a prize-winning documentary and a book, but now An Inconvenient Truth, the work for which the former US vice-president Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is to become an opera."
Mixing High Street and designer pieces isn't easy, in fact most celebrities have stylists to help them achieve the look. You have to get the right balance in the pieces as otherwise the designer piece will get lost or lose it's value when you really want that to be the central focus. Sugar reader
Oxymoron attended
the opera in this pink printed Pucci dress (kindly lent by her Mother!) and gained the right balance to create an elegant look.
Here's a story that involves Germany, Italian opera, September 11th, and Mickey Mouse masks . . .
Either that or he's begging someone to turn the music off. Where's Cesar Millan of "The Dog Whisperer" when you need him for translation?
