San Francisco Opera will present the West Coast premiere of composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley’s opera The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Atwood. Originally ...
When Poul Ruders made his first visit to Aspen, in 1980, he came to wander in the woods, a backpacking tourist from Denmark communing with the beauty of Aspen. But Ruders at the time was also ...
“My maternal grandfather, who was a humble gardener, loved Verdi and Puccini,” Danish composer Poul Ruders recalled recently. “And when I was 10 or 11, he took me first to see ‘La Bohème,’ and then to ...
The final orchestral performance of Bravo! Vail is Friday, with the New York Philharmonic performing music of Richard Wagner. But the festival doesn’t end when the New York Philharmonic goes home.
The Handmaid’s Tale review – Poul Ruders’s opera shows Atwood’s novel has lost none of its relevance
While it shies away from some of the brutality of the book, the ENO’s uncluttered staging gives space to the sharply drawn characters and revels in sumptuous atonality Budget cuts may have compelled ...
The BBC has long been a staunch supporter of Poul Ruders, both while he was living in this country and since he returned to his native Denmark. This week Radio 3 joined forces with Oxford Contemporary ...
The first major adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” was a feature film that appeared in 1990, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, which, despite a Harold Pinter screenplay and an ...
Composing an opera in one language is hard enough. Why would any sane composer write one in two languages simultaneously? Yet that is the problem that the Danish composer Poul Ruders set himself when ...
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