Brokeback Mountain (chamber version) (2010)
(Opera in Two Acts)

Brokeback Mountain is the American composer Charles Wuorinen's third opera, based on a short story by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Annie Proulx. Originally published in The New Yorker magazine in 1997, the story was made into a film by director Ang Lee and reached U.S. theaters in late 2005. The film version called the story to Wuorinen's attention and first suggested possibilities for an opera. Although ultimately co-commissioned by Madrid's Teatro Real, discussions for the opera's first production had originally begun with New York City Opera, which a few years before had staged Wuorinen's acclaimed Haroun and the Sea of Stories, based on Salmon Rushdie's children’s book. Unlike Brokeback Mountain, Haroun and an earlier opera, The W. of Babylon, are comedies.

— Robert Kirzinger