News for Mar. 02, 2005

Composer Howard Shore Working on Opera

3/02/05, 9:11 pm EST - Xoanon

NEW YORK - Having written a symphony, Howard Shore — the prolific composer whose music spans from Middle-earth to Howard Hughes' Hollywood days — is now looking to opera. He's working on an opera version of David Cronenberg's horror film "The Fly" for a 2007 premiere by Los Angeles Opera, a collaboration with Cronenberg and librettist David Henry Wong of "M. Butterfly" fame. [More]