BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Wuorinen) Madrid 2014 Daniel Okulitch, Tom Randle
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN by Charles Wuorinen
Teatro Real de Madrid, Spain
2014
CAST
Daniel Okulitch, Ennis del Mar
Tom Randle, Jack Twist
Heather BuckAlma
Hannah Esther Minutillo, Lureen
Ethan Herschenfeld, Aguirre / Hog-Boy
Celia Alcedo, Alma’s mother
Ryan MacPherson, Father of Jack
Jane Henschel, Jack’s Mother
Hilary Summers, A Waitress
Letitia Singleton, A Saleswoman
Gaizka Gurruchaga, A Cowboy
Vasco Fracanzani, Bill Jones
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Conductor: Titus Engle
Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid
Coro del Teatro Real
Chorus Master: Andrés Máspero
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Stage Director: Ivo van Hove
Stage Designer: Jan Versweyveld
Costume Designer: Wojciech Dziedzic
Lighting Designer: Tal Yarden
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Brokeback Mountain is an opera by American composer Charles Wuorinen, with a libretto in English by Annie Proulx, based on her 1997 short story “Brokeback Mountain”. They began work on it in 2008 under a commission by Gerard Mortier of the New York City Opera. He took the project with him to the Teatro Real of Madrid, where the opera was premiered on January 28, 2014.
In 2007, Wuorinen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, saw the 2005 film directed by Ang Lee and “was inspired by its operatic possibilities.” He approached Proulx with the idea of turning her short story into an opera and “to ask for her blessing to adapt the story for opera. Proulx went one step further, offering to write the libretto”.
Synopsis
The two-hour opera is performed without intermission.
Act 1
Scene 1: 1963, Aguirre’s trailer
Scene 2: Bar, Old Longhorn
Scene 3: On the mountain
Scene 4: Main camp, four days later
Scene 5: Main camp, next day sunset
Scene 6: Main camp, next morning
Scene 7: Dress shop
Scene 8: Lower main camp, twilight
Scene 9: Next morning, first light
Scene 10: Farm machinery salesroom, Texas
Scene 11: 1967, interior Alma and Ennis’ apartment in Riverton
Act 2
Scene 1: 1967, Del Mar apartment
Scene 2: Motel Siesta
Scene 3: Six years later, Del Mar apartment
Scene 4: Farm machinery salesroom, Texas
Scene 5: Del Mar apartment
Scene 6: Thanksgiving, Alma and Bill’s dining room and kitchen
Scene 7: 1983, (10 years later) in the mountains, late afternoon
Scene 8: Early autumn, downtown Riverton, in front of post office
Scene 9: Twist kitchen
Scene 10: Jack’s bedroom
Scene 11: Ennis’ trailer
Quoted from Wikipedia