When you think of opera, be honest, you start to nod off a little bit. Well, David Cronenberg is about to change all that. The director who made the more watchable of the two Crash movies has turned his 1987 cult classic, The Fly, into a full-blown opera. It's getting its US premiere this weekend at the Dorothy…
Annie Proulx's short story about gay mountain love reached millions when it became an Oscar-winning hit movie in 2005. And it refuses to go away! "The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on 'Brokeback Mountain,' the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx... The opera is scheduled to…
The Italian opera house is adapting Al Gore's film. Please suggest lines for the libretto below. [Breitbart]
Opera, the popular mobile browser, is dropping Yahoo as its default search engine for Google. While it hasn't had much success on the desktop, Opera is hugely popular in the mobile space, which many — especially at Google and Yahoo — consider to be the next big battlefront for search. Most users never change their…
Opera Software, maker of a feature-laden but forgotten Web browser, is complaining to the European Commission about Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It's an old gripe: Opera points out — duh — that IE is bundled with Windows. Opera claims this is illegal and that IE holds back the web with lousy support for standards.…
This pie chart of Anthony Tommasini's Times review of the Met's new production of Prokofiev's War and Peace really makes the review look more awesome than it actually is. And the production too probably, though we can't really speak to that. [parterre box]
