Bjork's Palme d'Or winning movie Dancer In The Dark is to be turned into a new opera. The acclaimed 2000 film, which was a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival, is to receive an opera adaptation in filmmaker Lars von Trier's native Denmark, according to Daily Variety.

In the film, Bjork played an immigrant factory worker in America, who becomes blind because of a congenital disease.

The opera will open at Denmark's Royal Theater in 2010.

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