Some thoughts for Musical America on San Francisco Opera’s fall production of The Handmaid’s Tale:
SAN FRANCISCO—It was at the turn of the millennium that composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley adapted The Handmaid’s Tale into an opera. These days, however, their version of the dystopian novel Margaret Atwood published in 1985 seems ominously closer to an opera ripped from the headlines than a cautionary tale …
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 