Cronenberg was also involved in an opera based on The Fly created by his composer friend Howard Shore (who composed the score for his film). From what I've read it's a combination of the original version and the remake, so the plot follows a Seth Brundle and the story of the 80s film, but set in the 50s. And you can tell based on the design of the opera's Brundlefly:
He's got the coloration and more fly-looking head of the 50s version, with the grotesque body of the Cronenberg film.
Although the in-between stages still adheres more to the Cronenberg one:
And for fun here's the final transformation from the ending:
It doesn't have the cute, black eyes of the 80s final transformation, but it's still pretty grotesque, which I'm glad was a standard they kept to.
By the way, all these images are from the 2008 Paris premiere of the opera. I couldn't find a full version of it anywhere online, so on the off chance somebody does have it please share. There is however a French documentary of it. I haven't fully watched it cause I don't speak French but its got some good clips
And here are the image sources with other pictures
Libretto by David Henry Hwang Music by Howard Shore The opera is loosely based on David Cronenberg's 1986 film The Fly ,
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