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*''[[Harvey Milk (opera)|Harvey Milk]]'' composed by [[Stewart Wallace]] and [[Michael Korie]] |
*''[[Harvey Milk (opera)|Harvey Milk]]'' composed by [[Stewart Wallace]] and [[Michael Korie]] |
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Perhaps because of his association with Adams and record of modern transpositions, the phrase is also directed at some of the output of director [[Peter Sellars]]. |
Perhaps because of his association with Adams and a record of modern transpositions, the phrase is also directed at some of the output of director [[Peter Sellars]]. |
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==External links== |
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Revision as of 20:01, 27 June 2006
CNN opera is a somewhat deprecatory description of contemporary operas taking as themes news events; or of classical opera transposed to a contemporary setting. The name alludes to Cable News Network, CNN.
The phrase has been applied to such operas as:
- Nixon in China by John Adams
- The Death of Klinghoffer, also by John Adams
- X - based on events in the life of Malcolm X, composed by Anthony Davis and Thulani Davis
- Harvey Milk composed by Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie
Perhaps because of his association with Adams and a record of modern transpositions, the phrase is also directed at some of the output of director Peter Sellars.
External links
- A Great American Opera, a review of Nixon in China, makes reference to CNN operas
- Mind-altering Mozart: Peter Sellars' famous stagings of three operas now out on DVD, a review dismissing Sellar's seeting of Figaro in the Trump Tower, as "the "CNN Opera" Sellars' detractors dismissed them all as".