![]() ![]() that had to break new ground in terms of its form," Shore says. "As a newcomer to opera I didn't want to create something. "Meaning very intimate, very intense, very heightened emotions."Īlthough Shore is best known as the Oscar-winning composer of the score for the film Lord of the Rings, he's always loved opera - and he's long dreamed of composing one. "We said no, the music should be operatic - because in a way the story is what we called operatic," Cronenberg says. ![]() ![]() And when they worked on their big-screen version of The Fly, Cronenberg says, they decided they didn't want a typical film score. ![]() 7.įor decades, Cronenberg and Shore have worked together on films including Scanners, Naked Lunch and Eastern Promises. With a libretto by Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and with Placido Domingo at the podium, The Fly makes its American debut at the Los Angeles Opera on Sept. It's not what you'd expect from opera.īut composer Howard Shore and director David Cronenberg, who worked on the 1986 film version of The Fly, have created an opera from the amazing story. Creative liberties: Placido Domingo, Howard Shore and David Cronenberg take questions at a press conference on the set of the opera.Ī man who accidentally recombines his DNA with an insect during an experiment? Exactly what you'd expect from science fiction. ![]()
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