Another Film Director goes to the Opera

July 4th, 2007 in Directors, Movie News, Oscars

anthony minghellaThere seems to be a trend of more film directors trying their hand at staging opera. Among those who have done so include The Godfather’s Francis Ford Coppola and The Exorcist’s William Friedkin. Woody Allen is scheduled to direct the opera Gianni Schicchi by Puccini in September of 2008. Even David Cronenberg is reportedly working on transforming his version of The Fly into an opera. Now comes word that Oscar winning director Anthony Minghella will be directing a new, unnamed opera for New York City’s venerable Metropolitan Opera. Minghella is quoted as stating: I’d love to work with new music because I think that’s also the only way forward. The commissioning, the risk-taking, has to happen, and it will have an inbuilt failure quotient to it, but they should be glorious failures. And the audience should … allow people to come here and fail on this stage, and then opera will be able to regenerate itself.” Minghella is best known for his award winning film of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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