It’s Pretty Much Over When the Gay Sheepherder Fails To Sing. Hey, gays—want another slap in the face? The departure of its artistic director means that New York City Opera’s lofty plans to mount an opera based on Brokeback Mountain have fallen through. Sadly, we’ll never hear the sweet sounds of Jack Twist’s angelic tenor and Ennis del Mar’s more dominant baritone on arias like, “You Know I Ain’t Queer (Me Neither),” and “You Need to Shut Your Slop-Bucket Mouths, You Hear Me?” nor will we experience the full fury of a 300-person choir singing the “Carmina Burana”-esque climax accompanying Ennis’s fateful first “taking” of Jack in their hillside pup-tent. [Variety]