![]() ![]() In his libretto for Awakenings, he gives authentic life to the patients’ stories, these Sleeping Beauties who had missed living a normal life for so long, awakening as strangers in a new world. Stollman, is, like Sacks or Chekhov, a literary physician, who combines the acute eye and observational skills of a doctor and a novelist. Oliver shared many deep interests, especially in music, with Tobias Picker and his husband, Aryeh Lev Stollman, and they began discussing an operatic version of Awakenings in the late 1990’s. In particular, of course, I wonder if you have had any further thoughts about Awakenings. It is easy to believe that it has demanded ten years of work, of your life… I cannot help wondering what will come next … (as a sort of creator myself) I know that one is always thinking, consciously or unconsciously, of new ideas, projects, etc. ![]() ![]() I really think you have written a masterpiece … I could not think of the Music, the Drama and the Staging separately – they came together as a marvellous whole. Nearly twenty years ago, Oliver Sacks wrote a letter to his friend Tobias Picker, whose opera, An American Tragedy, premiered recently at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. ![]()
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