NEW YORK, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Carpentier and Alfred Music Publishing are pleased to announce the release of The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films, a comprehensive account of Howard Shore's score for the trilogy, by Doug Adams.

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 Angela Doland Associated Press PARIS -- Be afraid, be very afraid: David Cronenberg's 1986 horror flick, "The Fly," has undergone a bizarre metamorphosis. It's now an opera.