Nicholas Wright

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast-moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts.

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In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.

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The adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts Botswana's first female-owned detective agency.

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Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873. In the play, which is largely fictional, he falls in love with an English widow.

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Lonely inhabitants at 28 Barbary Lane search for love and identity, turning to each other in the hope of finding happiness in San Francisco.

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About Austrian-British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, whose pioneering achievements mainly in the field of child psychology (The Psychoanalysis of the Child) and object relations theory. The action takes place in London in 1934, which sees twenty-five-year-old Melanie Klein mourning the death of her son Hans, who came to life in a mining accident. Your daughter Melitta interprets the incident as suicide and your mother as a culprit.

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