Do wha??

Movie directors Woody Allen, William Friedkin and David Cronenberg will each direct a production for the Los Angeles Opera in the 2008/09 season. Allen will oversee Gianni Schicchi, one of three one-act operas that make up Giacomo Puccini's Il Trittico. The Exorcist filmmaker Friedkin will direct the other two operas in the trilogy, Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica. Cronenberg will direct the U.S. premiere of Howard Shore's The Fly, based on his own 1986 movie remake of the same name. Placido Domingo, the Los Angeles Opera's general director, says, "I'm tremendously excited about our 2008/09 season because it is full of adventure. The kind of musical and theatrical exploration which appeals not only to established opera lovers but might be the right kind of lure for potentially new audiences." 

Are you freaking telling me they made an Opera based off of THE FLY??!!  Is there going to be a beautiful sonnata about throwing up on your meat so you can suck it up and digest it too?

Sweeney Todd is one thing, Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula, Phantom...they all lend themselves to a beautiful setting and music.  But the fucking Fly???

Color me amused and confused.