The Shining, a real spook opera, debuts tonight!
When composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell, who have both received the Pulitzer Prize for Music, began working on an opera adaptation offor the Minnesota Opera, they looked to Stephen King’s novel as a guidepost rather than Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film. It took them three years, with Campbell reducing more than 600 pages of the novel into about fifty pages of text for the opera, which had its world premiere in Minnesota in 2016.
Moravec notes that opera as a genre traditionally has three elements: love, death and power, which he says King’s novel has on steroids, making it more organic to adapt into opera. There’s also a supernatural element to the novel, with the inclusion of ghosts.“I think of music as an art form that's kind of otherworldly to begin with. And so the thing that music has in common with ghosts and these energy fields — they're both energy fields that are invisible, unless you can see ghosts.
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