So, it’s come to this: An Inconvenient Truth is going to become an opera. Like, with singers and orchestras and everything.   There’s not a whole lot of information out there at the moment, but with musicals based on every other piece of media in the world existing right now (Legally Blond as a musical?  Come on!), this seems like a totally rational idea that isn’t really, really, mind-blowingly odd.   From the Associated Press:

[O]fficials 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. [ap.google.com]

A little thing you might like to know about me, as an eco-blogger, before I go any further.   I have yet to read or see An Inconvenient Truth.   Just haven’t done it.   Don’t know if I’m actually going to get around to it.   But THIS, this I will certainly see.   I mean…it’s just…wow.   That’s it.   Just wow.

and learn more about the book and film (nothing about the opera just yet), and also the science behind it all.   And start brushing up on that Italian so you’ll understand the words to it all.   I don’t know how to say “climate change” yet, but I do know “orecchi” means “ears.”  If that helps any.