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Global Warming, the Opera

La Scala plans operatic version of Al Gore's climate change documentary

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted May 30, 2008 4:45 AM CDT

(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...   Read full story »

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