By Jim Farber When Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore told Placido Domingo that he wanted to compose an opera based on the 1986 film version of "The Fly," the artistic director of the Los Angeles Opera should have heeded the warning of the movie's heroine, "Be afraid.

By Jim Farber When Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore told Placido Domingo that he wanted to compose an opera based on the 1986 film version of "The Fly," the artistic director of Los Angeles Opera should have heeded the warning of the movie's heroine: "Be afraid.

By Evan Henerson More than two decades after creating an ick factor with "The Fly," David Cronenberg and Howard Shore are trying to make it sing. Cronenberg, the acclaimed film director ("Dead Ringers,""A History of Violence"), says he doesn't like returning to previously trodden creative ground.

By Evan Henerson More than two decades after creating an ick factor with "The Fly," David Cronenberg and Howard Shore are trying to make it sing. Cronenberg, the acclaimed film director ("Dead Ringers,""A History of Violence"), says he doesn't like returning to previously trodden creative ground.

By Karen D'Souza, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jan. 22--Break a leg, Stanford! University officials today will announce a partnership with New York's Public Theater to create a new play incubator.