Monty Python Alum to Make Operatic Debut

Terry Gilliam (“Brazil,” “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.”), although recently plagued with misfortune, will direct Berlioz’s “Damnation of Faust” at the English National Opera in May 2011, reported the New York Times’ ArtsBeat.  The production will be his first foray into opera directing. Flash floods, NATO aircraft drills, and lack of funds halted Gilliam’s last film project, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” but made for a great documentary: “Lost in La Mancha.”

Read the story at the New York Times.

Pictured: Terry Gilliam (Photo: Getty Images)