The New York Times, in a story with one of those headlines containing words one never expects to see in relation to one another, is reporting that the director of a La Scala opera based on the Al Gore film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” has resigned over creative differences with the American poet writing the libretto.

The story, “Friedkin Quits ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Opera,” just gets weirder from there. The director is William Friedkin, whose previous credits include “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” either of which might be perceived as too kinetic to foreshadow a successful La Scala debut directing an opera about climate change. (Starring Alan Rickman as Global Warming?)

The composer said the director was leaving for personal reasons and not from any friction, but at the same time slammed Friedkin for possessing a special-effects mentality. Probably they couldn’t get together on choreographing the chase scenes.

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