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2024-02-10 09:27:00
A Star Next to the Moon: Stephen McNeff on his new opera, based on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, a seminal novel of magic realism
[…] Whilst there are two or three prominent roles there are no minor ones, so it suits the needs of the performance. The opera is called A Star Next to the Moon because the Juan Rulfo Foundation did not want Pedro Páramo as the title.Stephen's earlier opera, also with a libretto by Aoife Mannix, Beyond the Garden [see my article], which premiered in Slovenia in 2019, received its UK premiere in 2022 with performances at the Lichfield Festival and the Three Choirs Festival, but he is still hoping for a London premiere. His other operas have also included Vivienne, about T.S. Eliot's first wife [see my review, and also on CD] and Banished, based on Steven Gooch's play about the first women transported to Australia, Female Transport [see my review].Stephen McNeff’s latest opera, A Star Next to the Moon, receives its world premiere at The Guildhall School on 26 February 2024, […]
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