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Personal Finance Show more Personal Finance. The four volumes of his collected works newly issued in paperback were hidden behind the sequel to "The Shining. Picker's "Dolores Claiborne" is, however, not very King-like. The novel is one of the novelist's rare forays into realistic fiction, but King himself has had nothing to do with the opera and has demonstrated little interest in it.
Nor has King been magic at the box office. The performance Wednesday was the third of six, and the War Memorial Opera House was not full, despite the ready approachability of the work. Poet J. McClatchy's libretto gives workable theatrical shape to a novel written as a single page monologue. Picker's score, the best of his five operas, is imaginatively moody. James Robinson's production, with effective projections as backdrops, never confuses the issue.
The singers are outstanding. In a word, Picker's "Dolores Claiborne" works as conventional opera, and that seems to be its problem. And although King might seem an unlikely source for an opera, Picker says, people who think of him as only a horror writer are missing what an extraordinary storyteller he is.
The novel was later made into a film starring Oscar-winner Kathy Bates in the title role. The themes are consistent with ones Picker has explored in other works, Petosa says. Photo by Andrew Brilliant. The chamber version premiered at New York City Opera in Here you have five actors in each cast, and each one of them has to fulfill some pretty substantial musical and dramatic demands. In this video, CFA grad student Rebecca Printz, who plays the title role in a second cast for Dolores Claiborne , rehearses a scene where Dolores prepares to murder her husband.
All are either Opera Institute students or School of Theatre graduate students. Memorably played by Kathy Bates in the movie, Dolores will be sung by the powerhouse mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick, who brings to her roles "the kind of explosive dramatic intensity that makes her an unforgettable stage presence" San Francisco Chronicle.
This chilling work features a libretto by poet J. Production contains adult language and themes Sung in English with English supertitles Approximate running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes including one intermission Pre-Opera Talks are free to ticketholders and take place in the main theater in the Orchestra section, 55 minutes prior to curtain.
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