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Global Warming, the Opera

Posted May 30, 08 4:45 AM CDT in Science & Health,  World 

(Newser) – It started out as a slide show, became an Oscar-winning documentary and best-selling book, and now Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is about to become a full-length opera, reports the AP. Milan's La Scala opera house has commissioned Italian composer  Giorgio Battistelli to set Gore's stark warning on global warming to music, for the 2011 season.

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The leaders of Austria, Qatar, Germany, and Greece stand with the mayor of Milan at La Scala as the Italian national anthem is played.   (AP Photo/Marco Brescia, Teatro alla Scala, ho)
Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, center, plays Cyrano in Franco Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac, at Milan's La Scala theatre, Italy, Tuesday night, Jan. 29, 2008. (AP   (AP Photo)
In this photo provided by Milan's La Scala theater, guests stand during the Italian national anthem prior to the La Scala's traditional Dec. 7 season opening, in Milan, Italy, Friday Dec. 7, 2007.   (AP Photo/Marco Brescia, Teatro alla Scala, ho)
Al Gore is shown in his film on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth." Milan's La Scala opera house plans to turn Gore's work into an opera.   (AP Photo/Paramount Classics,Eric Lee)
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