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Famed opera house La Scala has commissioned an opera based on Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth. The New York City Opera is working a version of the movie Brokeback Mountain. Nick Scholl of trrill.com talks about what these works might sound like, and about other modern operas that involve current events.