Nick Haramis
June 09, 2008
New York City Opera recently called for an aria-infused interpretation of "I wish I knew how to quit you!" when news came that Brokeback Mountain would become an opera. The whole thing seemed destined for punchlines like this one: "Well, we all know how the boys hit their high notes, hehe. Because, you see, they're total gays." But, NYMag.com suggests that history might prove helpful in warding off parody, by citing operatic inclinations towards sexual ambivalence ("Mozart’s Cherubino from Le Nozze di Figaro, Strauss’s Octavian from Rosenkavalier, and Gluck’s Orestes and Pylades from Iphigénie en Tauride, to name a few") and, yes, cowboys ("Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West").



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