Horror flick 'The Fly' to mutate into an opera
Los Angeles Opera and the Théâtre du Châtelet of Paris will co-produce "The Fly," a new opera based on director David Cronenberg's 1986 horror film about a scientist who mutates into a human-fly hybrid.
The opera, to be directed by Cronenberg with music by Academy Award-winning film composer Howard Shore and a libretto by playwright and Los Angeles native David Henry Hwang, is scheduled to have its world premiere in Paris on July 1, 2008.
Plácido will conduct.
I never saw that film. Just after I started at University a friend went on and on about it, and put me right off it...
