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'''CNN opera''' is a somewhat deprecatory description of contemporary [[opera]]s taking as themes news events; or of classical opera transposed to a contemporary setting. The name alludes to Cable News Network, [[CNN]]. |
'''CNN opera''' is a somewhat deprecatory description of contemporary [[opera]]s taking as themes news events; or of classical opera transposed to a contemporary setting. The name alludes to Cable News Network, [[CNN]]. |
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CNN opera is a somewhat deprecatory description of contemporary operas taking as themes news events; or of classical opera transposed to a contemporary setting. The name alludes to Cable News Network, CNN.
The phrase has been applied to such operas as:
- Nixon in China by John Adams
- The Death of Klinghoffer, also by John Adams
- X - based on events in the life of Malcolm X, composed by Anthony Davis and Thulani Davis
- Harvey Milk composed by Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie
Perhaps because of his association with Adams and a record of modern transpositions, the phrase is also directed at some of the output of director Peter Sellars.
External links
- A Great American Opera, a review of Nixon in China, makes reference to CNN operas
- Mind-altering Mozart: Peter Sellars' famous stagings of three operas now out on DVD, a review dismissing Sellar's setting of Figaro in the Trump Tower, as "the "CNN Opera" Sellars' detractors dismissed them all as".