“The Fly” Goes Opera

Like I said earlier… Um… OK. 

“The Fly,” described as a classical re-imagining of the 1986 movie about an eccentric scientist who turns into a massive fly, will open the new season at Los Angeles Opera in September with LA Opera director Placido Domingo conducting the orchestra.

But fans be warned. Although “The Fly” reunited the movie’s director, composer, costume designer and creature designer, this isn’t just a revered film set to classical music.

“I didn’t want to remake the movie. I didn’t want to rewrite the screenplay again,” Cronenberg, 65, told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday. “This production has a power and charisma all its own.”