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Wuorinen’s Opera Misses Tenderness Of ‘Brokeback Mtn.’
Susan Brodie
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February 6, 2014
By Susan Brodie
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Brokeback Mountain
, a new opera by Charles Wuorinen and Annie Proulx about forbidden love between two ranch hands, echoes Wyoming's mountain grandeur. But one longs for a character to sing his heart out.
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