Cronenberg's 'Fly' set for opera

February 17, 2007 World-famous tenor Placido Domingo and prolific film director David Cronenberg are making music together, with Cronenberg set to direct and Domingo to conduct an operatic version of the helmer's 1986 film "The Fly" at Paris' Theatre du Chatelet. The adaptation is scheduled to premiere on July 1, 2008, followed by a premiere stateside in collaboration with the Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Domingo and Theatre du Chatelet general manger Jean-Luc Choplin announced at a press lunch Friday in Paris. "The Fly" was composed by Academy- and Grammy-award winner Howard Shore to a libretto written by Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang.

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