"Brokeback Mountain", the Oscar-winning epic about the relationship between two cowboys in the American West, is coming to the stage as an opera, with a world premiere in Madrid this month. The opera, ...

MADRID (Reuters) - When Annie Proulx published "Brokeback Mountain" in The New Yorker magazine in 1997, she had no inkling the tragic cowboy love story would go on to inspire an Oscar-winning film and ...

NEW YORK — Some new operas are exasperating because they fall far short of their potential. Charles Wuorinen’s “Brokeback Mountain,” though, is exasperating because it falls just short. This ...

“The mystery of Love is greater than the mystery of Death,” murmurs the title character of Salome as she takes a breather from canoodling with the severed head of John the Baptist. The concupiscent ...