At one of the many press events surrounding the January 28 world premiere of Brokeback Mountain at the Teatro Real, American tenor Tom Randle, who created the role of Jack Twist in Charles Wuorinen's opera, confessed that he had never seen Ang Lee's Oscar-winning 2005 film of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story. "But somebody told me we were more handsome," Randle added. The Spanish-language translator, seated next to the tenor, said, "You sure are," and everybody laughed, creating a mood of elation that seemed to linger on the following night at the opera's first performance.
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