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A Novel Idea.(adapting books into operas)
IT'S TIME FOR AMERICAN OPERA TO CLOSE THE BOOKS.
For more than two decades, American composers and the opera companies that commission them have been having an ongoing affair with novelists. In addition to nineteenth-century literary lions such as Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy and Henry James, writers closer to our own time -- John Steinbeck, Robert Penn Warren and James Agee among them -- have found their work strutting its hour on the lyric stage. Even James M. Cain's pulp fiction has been set to music, by Stephen Paulus, in The Postman Always Rings Twice. This steamy tale of infidelity, blackmail, fraud and murder, better remembered as a 1946 screen vehicle for ...
- Novel ways to update opera; A rare revival of Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) July 7, 2004 700+ words
...contribution to 19th-century opera, it is anomalous that...literature has been bypassed by opera companies in modern times...Scott spawned more than 50 operas, from Rossini's version...Shakespeare supplied more opera plots to the trade than...Wagner based Rienzi on a novel by Bulwer-Lytton. ...
- What the Dickens is next? Novel gets soap-opera treatment.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) January 28, 2005 700+ words
...Davies is giving a Dickens novel the soap-opera treatment for television...Kenilworth, is adapting the novel Bleak House into a series of soap-opera-style episodes for BBC1...original readers enjoyed his novels in short instalments which...
- Daze of Their Lives:The Novel as Soap Opera
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Fred Chappell August 6, 1987 700+ words
...Robert Boswell's first novel straight: Eileen has...It's like a soap opera, I guess. I hate soap operas. The actors are all...the plot of almost any novel about a family-including...will sound like a soap opera. All the difference...
- Sophie's Choice: Gordon Gietz (Stingo), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sophie) and...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Forbes, Elizabeth March 22, 2003 700+ words
The world premiere of Sophie's Choice, an opera with music and text by Nicholas Maw, based on the novel by William Styron, scored a tremendous success for the Royal Opera House. Maw's musical style, combining rich orchestral...
- Made in America; A plucky creative team has translated Gertrude Stein's...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Preston, Rohan December 7, 2008 700+ words
...Stein's sprawling novel "The Making of Americans" into an opera? Jay Scheib took a...transform it into an opera. Stein, who died...World premiere of an opera by director Jay Scheib...Gatto, based on the novel by Gertrude Stein...
- Mawrdew Czgowchwz. (Books: opera soap: author James McCourt enjoys the encore...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Foley, Dylan March 5, 2002 700+ words
...even then." McCourt's opera diva heroine is poised...comeback now that his novel has been republished by...for up to $100. The novel chronicles the fictional...other divas' fans. Like opera itself, the novel is outsized and outrageous...
- A twist in the Tale; Margaret Atwood is dreading the UK premiere of the opera...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Maddocks, Fiona April 3, 2003 700+ words
...the UK premiere of the opera of her novel The Handmaid's Tale...of sitting through the opera a second time, nerve...parallels, English National Opera's publicity material...put anything into the novel that human beings hadn...
- Wenders' heart still aches for America's West: This German director grew up...
- Newspaper article from: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL) May 22, 2006 700+ words
...Wenders says. "But the American West in his books is peopled with unbelievably noble Indians and Europeans." Wenders read the novels. He saw the movies -- Rio Grande, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. The West became fixed in Wenders' mind. "Even though May...
