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Sep 12, 2008, 07:52AM

The Fly. Now in Opera Form.

If you missed the "Lord of the Rings" run in Canada, you can still get a dose of live-action sci-fi/fantasy in L.A. in the form of "The Fly: the Opera." It's based on the 1986 film classic "The Fly" and boasts a good bit of star power: Placido Domingo conducts, and the production features original music by Howard Shore, who scored the Lord of the Rings.

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The Fly is an engrossing exploration of the physical and psychological transformation in which a brilliant scientist begins to mutate into a hybrid of man and fly after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. Researcher Seth Brundle makes a stunning breakthrough in the field of matter transportation when he successfully teleports a living creature. Frustrated in his budding romance with a scientific journalist, and in need of a human subject, he recklessly attempts to teleport himself. An unseen fly enters the transmission booth as well, however, and Brundle soon realizes that his experiment has had "mixed" results.

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