Be afraid, be very afraid The Fly is being turned in to an Opera by the director who remade the classic in 1986 according to the Daily Star.
Rather than singing, the operatic tenor will be conducting performances. Placido admits at first he was dubious about bringing the film to the stage: “I was a little skeptical about the subject. ‘The Fly?’ I said ‘well, how is it going to be reading for an opera?’ but it just takes somebody that has the experience of composer Howard Shore to write the music, and he has done a score that goes fabulously well with the story.”
While I think it can work as an Opera, I have no intention to see it when it opens here in LA next month. There is just something that seems wrong about it.
Here is one of my all-time most memorable scenes from a movie, and thankfully The Fly: The Opera is not based on this version of the movie! I think if it were Vincent Price would be turning over in grave or haunting someone over it! That seems like his style, no?
I’ve seen it in France, and I have to say that despite good singers, the music was really boring (especially the first act) and I can’t say I enjoy the lyrics (’Heil to the flesh, heil to the flesh’). I really love the original score from the movie and sadly Howard Shore kept about twenty seconds of it in his opera. Great special effects, however, but well… it doesn’t worth the price…
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