*sings* "Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, 'What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?' We have to hear that question from them, now."

sings “Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, ‘What were our parents thinking? Why didn’t they wake up when they had a chance?’ We have to hear that question from them, now.”

Following on the heels of Olga Neuwirth’s opera Lost Highway (yes, it’s based on the David Lynch film) and the forthcoming operas Il Postino (by Osvaldo Golijov), The Fly (Howard Shore), and Brokeback Mountain (Charles Wuorinen), now we get the news that La Scala has commissioned composer Giorgio Battistelli to compose an opera of the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

In the words of Anna Russell, “I’m not making this up you know.”

Read on at All Music.

3 years ago

totopromo

*sings* “Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, ‘What were our parents thinking? Why didn’t they wake up when they had a chance?’ We have to hear that question from them, now.”

sings “Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, ‘What were our parents thinking? Why didn’t they wake up when they had a chance?’ We have to hear that question from them, now.”