Tobias Picker
COMPOSER
Tobias Picker is known for his dramatically effective and musically traditional operas. The Santa Fe Opera gave the world premiere of Picker’s widely acclaimed first opera, Emmeline, which was broadcast nationally on public television’s Great Performances series. His subsequent operas include his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, which premiered at the Los Angeles Opera; Thérèse Raquin, performed at The Dallas Opera, San Diego Opera and Opéra de Montréal; and An American Tragedy, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
J. D. McClatchy
LIBRETTIST
J. D. McClatchy is the author of thirteen opera libretti, most notably for William Schuman’s A Question of Taste, Francis Thorne’s Mario and the Magician, Bruce Saylor’s Orpheus Descending and Tobias Picker’s Emmeline. McClatchy is also the author of six collections of poems, including Hazmat, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review and The New Republic.
Stephen King
AUTHOR OF DOLORES CLAIBORNE , THE NOVEL
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With a career spanning 40 years, Stephen King is the most prolific horror and suspense writer of all time, with more than 30 of his works having been made into films—including Carrie, Misery and Dolores Claiborne (starring Kathy Bates)—and hit television shows including The Dead Zone, Haven and The Stand. In June 2013, an adaptation of his novel, Under the Dome, premiered on CBS to rave reviews.
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