An Inconvenient Truth: the opera?

Posted By Blake Hounshell Friday, May 30, 2008 - 10:37 AM Share


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I can't imagine how La Scala intends to stage An Inconvenient Truth:

La Scala officials say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera on the international multiformat hit for the 2011 season at the Milan opera house. The composer is currently artistic director of the Arena in Verona.

After all, the movie was basically an extended PowerPoint presentation. Are they going to put Al Gore's slides up where the libretto usually goes? And what's the plot?

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WHALT

10:55 AM ET

May 30, 2008

Not PowerPoint

A little fact checking for you. Al Gore's AIT presentation was done in Apple's Keynote not Microsoft's PowerPoint as is widely believed. Unless of course you're using PowerPoint generically as is often done with Kleenex and Xerox.

 

BLAKE HOUNSHELL

12:03 PM ET

May 30, 2008

yes, certainly

I mean in the generic sense.

 

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