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La Scala to stage Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth'
AP ^ | May 29, 2008 07:52 AM US/Eastern | AP

Posted on 05/29/2008 6:08:46 AM PDT by MaestroLC

MILAN, Italy - First it was the film and the book. Now the next stop for Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is opera.

La Scala officials say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera [...] for the 2011 season

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gore; inconvenient; lascala; opera; stage
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1 posted on 05/29/2008 6:08:47 AM PDT by MaestroLC
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To: MaestroLC

Oh lordy! Please tell me this is satire!


2 posted on 05/29/2008 6:13:17 AM PDT by NewCenturions (I've got a posthumous crush on Dave Guard)
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To: MaestroLC

Oh, I must call Ticketmaster right now!

(sarcasm)


3 posted on 05/29/2008 6:14:24 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: NewCenturions

Boof!

I hope it is true.


4 posted on 05/29/2008 6:15:29 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( Uh...fight SCD. Schwa Collapse Disorder is spreading. Save the a word. Just say uh.)
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To: MaestroLC

I predict an aria by a tenor polar bear.


5 posted on 05/29/2008 6:17:17 AM PDT by tlb
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To: MaestroLC

Just one more thing to fuel my dislike of opera!


6 posted on 05/29/2008 6:17:23 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Well, there WAS a Broadway musical called “Urinetown”. Sounds about the same speed as a Gore idea


7 posted on 05/29/2008 6:18:41 AM PDT by NewCenturions (I've got a posthumous crush on Dave Guard)
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To: MaestroLC
Don Algore? Cosi Fan Loony?
8 posted on 05/29/2008 6:20:35 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Peace Is Not The Question.)
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To: MaestroLC
It's being billed as opera buffa, I presume.
9 posted on 05/29/2008 6:20:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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To: MaestroLC

At least this was meant to be high farce.

10 posted on 05/29/2008 6:23:35 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: MaestroLC

Here’s what’s on Amazon to about one of his works (he isn’t well represented in the catalog from what I can see). And, I thought musique concrète went out of fashion 60 or 70 years ago.

The works of Giorgio Battistelli (b. 1953) are often linked to the theater, and even his instrumental works are highly dramatic, with various instruments and elements considered as ‘characters’ in a drama. In 1974 he was a founding member of a leading avant-garde group in Rome and soon made his name as one of the most interesting composers of his generation. For the past 20 years, Experimentum Mundi has been one of the most-performed works of musique concrète, i.e., music made with everyday objects instead of conventional instruments. In this work, 16 everyday tools are lined up on stage along with 16 workmen in aprons, and an actor in evening dress. The actor begins reading from the eighteenth-century Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert while the workmen make astonishing music with their tools and materials.


11 posted on 05/29/2008 6:24:57 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: MaestroLC
And it won't be over 'til the fat man sings:


12 posted on 05/29/2008 6:25:23 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Peace Is Not The Question.)
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To: MaestroLC; IowaHawk; Ezekiel; aculeus; sitetest; Billthedrill; AnAmericanMother; MozarkDawg; ...
Once again, life overtakes satire.

Opera Historians Unearth “Scumbaggio,” Lost Verdi Masterpiece

13 posted on 05/29/2008 6:26:17 AM PDT by dighton
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To: NewHampshireDuo

avant-garde = pretends to have talent (as in Yoko Ono)


14 posted on 05/29/2008 6:27:18 AM PDT by NewCenturions (I've got a posthumous crush on Dave Guard)
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To: dighton

ROTFLMA


15 posted on 05/29/2008 6:34:15 AM PDT by DManA
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To: dighton

LOL!!!


16 posted on 05/29/2008 6:34:37 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: andy58-in-nh

Larda**.


17 posted on 05/29/2008 6:35:11 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: MaestroLC

Look on the bright side. A hundred years from now it can serve as a monument to mindless hysterics jumping on the Political Correctness Bandwagon.


18 posted on 05/29/2008 6:35:56 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Maybe the Sopranos can open a trash hauling business in Italy. Considering all the garbage in Naples and now at La Scala, it would be perfect.


19 posted on 05/29/2008 6:36:49 AM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: andy58-in-nh

And then hopefully it will be over

For good.


20 posted on 05/29/2008 6:41:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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