Philip Glass composes Walt Disney opera

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    Originally Posted By leemac

    No idea what to make of this:

    <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993057.html?categoryid=15&cs=1" target="_blank">http://www.variety.com/article...=15&cs=1</a>
     
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    Originally Posted By mawnck

    Ick.

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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Okay, I like some of Philip Glass's work, and I liked the book "The Perfect American," but I'm not at all sure this is a good idea. I'm expecting something that anybody who likes and admires Walt Disney will absolutely hate.
     
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    Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

    Interesting.

    Does the book have an English translation?
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Yes. We had it at Compass for a while.

    Here it is at Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-American-Peter-Stephan-Jungk/dp/1590511158" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-...90511158</a>
     
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    Originally Posted By schnebs

    Couldn't be any worse than that play someone did of Walt's life that played in Burbank a couple of years ago.
     
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    Originally Posted By greenbean

    Maybe we'll get to see a different side of WD?

    It does make me nervous though...
     
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    Originally Posted By Anatole69

    I'm looking forward to this. I love Philip Glass, so the music is a cinch.

    The questionable part is the book for the opera. Sounds like the main character is unsympathetic to the reader, and that is the main failing of the novel... so in order for the book of the opera to succeed, it sounds like they will have to work on that and somehow make him somewhat more approachable and tragic to the audience.

    - Anatole
     

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