For the past year, Grossman has been working on a new project, one that combines a prose narrative of novella length with an "operatic play" whose libretto is written in verse.
The Lion's Face, whose libretto is written by the poet Glyn Maxwell, is set to be performed at the Brighton Festival on 20 May, and then in London at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre.
He will be particularly in our thoughts next season, as we present the company premiere of Barber's "Vanessa", whose libretto was written by Maestro Menotti.
He cast the teen-ager in a number of productions, including the experimental 1976 opera "Einstein on the Beach," whose libretto was composed, in part, of Knowles's poems.
"The challenge was being allowed to enter his private kingdom". He cast the teen-ager in a number of productions, including the experimental 1976 opera "Einstein on the Beach," whose libretto was composed, in part, of Knowles's poems.
His maternal grandparents were distinguished: his grandmother, Hedwig Lachmann, was a translator whose libretto was used for Richard Strauss's opera "Salome," and his grandfather, Gustav Landauer, was an anarchist leader who was killed by right-wing opponents.
This was not the case with Pietro Metastasio (1698 1782), who was more influential than any composer of his time, and whose librettos were actually published and read, though the music to his operas was not.
The Innsbruck revival is notable not just because it represents a major work of an important composer but also because it has a text by Pietro Metastasio, the poet whose librettos were set to music over and over again in the 18th century.
The libretto is by Rudolph Wurlitzer, whose credits include the screenplays for "Two Lane Blacktop" and "Pat Garret and Billy the Kid".
The libretto is by Rudolph Wurlitzer, whose credits include the screenplays for "Two Lane Blacktop and Pat Garret and Billyly the Kid". It preserves Kafka's casual, almost offhand way of telling this tale.
The libretto is by Peter Greenaway, whose penchant for violence is fulfilled in brief electronic interludes (by the composer Michel van der Aa) evoking other events in Holland's "year of disasters"; these form islands in the flow of Andriessen's post-minimalist music, which is lulling and disturbing by turns.
