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*''[[Harvey Milk (opera)|Harvey Milk]]'', composed by [[Stewart Wallace]], [[libretto]] by [[Michael Korie]]<ref name=NYT /> |
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Perhaps because of his association with Adams and a record of modern transpositions, some of the output of director [[Peter Sellars]] has also been referred to as a ''CNN opera''.<ref>[http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=music&article=127 "Mind-altering Mozart: Peter Sellars' famous stagings of three operas now out on DVD"] by Tim Pfaff, ''[[Bay Area Reporter]]'' (23 March 2006), a review dismissing Sellar's setting of ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' in the [[ |
Perhaps because of his association with Adams and a record of modern transpositions, some of the output of director [[Peter Sellars]] has also been referred to as a ''CNN opera''.<ref>[http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=music&article=127 "Mind-altering Mozart: Peter Sellars' famous stagings of three operas now out on DVD"] by Tim Pfaff, ''[[Bay Area Reporter]]'' (23 March 2006), a review dismissing Sellar's setting of ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' in the [[Trump Tower]], as "the "CNN Opera" Sellars' detractors dismissed them all as".</ref> |
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Revision as of 07:37, 22 November 2016
A CNN opera is a contemporary opera taking news events as a theme or a classical opera transposed to a contemporary setting. The, somewhat deprecatory, term CNN opera alludes to Cable News Network, CNN.
Operas that have been referred to as a CNN opera include:
- Nixon in China by John Adams[1][2]
- The Death of Klinghoffer, also by John Adams[1]
- X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X by Anthony Davis[citation needed]
- Harvey Milk, composed by Stewart Wallace, libretto by Michael Korie[1]
Perhaps because of his association with Adams and a record of modern transpositions, some of the output of director Peter Sellars has also been referred to as a CNN opera.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Writers Enchanted by the Freedom of Opera" by Dinitia Smith, The New York Times (28 September 1995)
- ^ "Opera review: Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera" by Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times (13 February 2011)
- ^ "Mind-altering Mozart: Peter Sellars' famous stagings of three operas now out on DVD" by Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter (23 March 2006), a review dismissing Sellar's setting of The Marriage of Figaro in the Trump Tower, as "the "CNN Opera" Sellars' detractors dismissed them all as".