Read today that the New York City Opera has commissioned a new work based on Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. The opera will premiere in 2013 and will feature a score by Charles Wuorinen, the youngest composer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for music (in 1970).

Wuorinen works in the 12-tone tradition and is known for his fondness for incorporating elements of fractal geometry, particularly the Mandelbrot set, in his compositions. P is wondering how Annie Proul x's gay cowboys will fit into Wuorinen's mathematical equations? How will those scenes of quiet intimacy translate to the operatic stage, which is pretty much the opposite of intimate?

P hopes to be pleasantly surprised if she manages to catch this on one of her overseas trips.