This is (almost) beyond parody: an Al Gore opera is being written for La Scala. Not an opera about Gore (in Nixon in China vein) but an opera by Al Gore.
Well, sort of:
[A]n opera has been commissioned to composer Giorgio Battistelli for the 2011 season, based on
An Inconvenient Truth, the best-selling book by Al Gore (Gore had recently been hired by Milan's Mayor to prepare a presentation supporting
the nomination for Milan as host city of the 2015 Expo, arguing that the shockingly gray, polluted, bike lane-deprived city is in fact a paragon of green virtue).
Don't all rush to buy your plane tickets to Milan in 2011.
