Question for David Parsons: Why treat brie like Velveeta? His “Remember Me,” now playing the Joyce, takes some of opera’s most beautiful arias and turns them into run-of-the-mill Top 40 hits.

The fast-moving program — a collaboration between Parsons Dance and the East Village Opera Company — portrays a love triangle. The arias are sung live onstage by two singers to recorded music, while the 11 dancers play out the drama: In the leads, Abby Silva Gavezzoli loves Zac Hammer, but not if Miguel Quinones has anything to do with it. Will they end up happy or dead? Stay tuned.

The musical interpretations are ambitious. The overture — a mash-up of Mozart and The Who — promises intelligent counterpoint, but what follows are arias puffed up with bad rocker bombast.

The choreography takes fewer risks; it’s both competent and familiar. Among the more striking and inventive formations are having the women drift high above the men’s heads or held prone like cadavers.

But some of Parsons’ glib ideas are painful. Homegirl head-rolling to the Habanera from “Carmen”? An attempted seduction to “Ave Maria”? Ow.

The dancers, dressed in simple street wear by “Project Runway” designer Austin Scarlett, know they need to sell this, so they do. But the plot is so sketchy, it’s hard to feel any of the overblown emotions onstage, even with the singers (Annmarie Milazzo and Tyley Ross) rocking out as if the Joyce were the Meadowlands.

The company is doing two other mixed bills during its run, both of which feature Parsons’ biggest hit, “Caught.” That’s probably a better bet.

“Remember Me” is never boring, but it doesn’t live up to the operas that inspired it. Parsons has been around a while, but his reputation came from being a great dancer, not a great choreographer. He’s got Velveeta taste, and that works better for mac ‘n’ cheese than opera.