title: CNN opera
text: # CNN opera
  
  A CNN opera is a contemporary opera taking news events as a theme or a classical opera transposed to a contemporary setting. The somewhat deprecatory term CNN opera alludes to Cable News Network, CNN.
  
  Operas that have been referred to as a CNN opera include:
  
  * Nixon in China by John Adams
  * The Death of Klinghoffer, also by John Adams
  * X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X by Anthony Davis
  * Harvey Milk, composed by Stewart Wallace, libretto by Michael Korie
  
  Perhaps because of his association with Adams and a record of modern transpositions, some of the output of director Peter Sellars has also been referred to as CNN opera.
  
  