Philip Glass Gets Disneyfied
And other weird operas
 

Perpetual New Yorker and wonky-haired composer Philip Glass is in the process of working on an opera about the life of Walt Disney. Called The Greatest American, the musical concerto will not feature any of the songs that brought Disney features fame, but will tell the story of Walt's last days as seen through the eyes of a fictional cartoonist working for the master.

Hopefully the production will follow in opera's gory tradition and include a segment where Walt cuts off his own head for cryogenic freezing. If so, this production will follow in a growing trend of movies-cum-operas that take some of the weird films of the 20th century and give them the soprano-alto-bass treatment:

 

• Lost Highway Opera: David Lynch's perpetual dark works machine (that, according to David Foster Wallace, was at least partially inspired by the O.J. Simpson case) started out as a production at Oberlin College and moved with its Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth to New York's Young Vic last year. Perhaps there were subtitles explaining the plot.
 
• The Fly Opera: One of David Cronenberg grossiest films (and the birth of the meme Jeff Goldblum is watching you poop), The Fly hatched into a musical earlier this month over at the Los Angeles Opera. Famed music composer Howard Shore did the score.
 
• Repo: The Genetic Opera: Sure this bizarrely titled film hasn't technically jumped to stage yet, but considering that it's basically Saw: The Musical (with a little bit of Rocky Horror thrown in) you can bet your Hot Topic gift certificate that it will get fans of the torture porn genre into theaters. Even if it does star Paris Hilton.

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