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Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:

with Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Ali Smith & more

Jeanette Winterson author Jeanette Winterson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Quercus Publishing

Published:18th Apr '19

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Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera: cover

With Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Kate Mosse, Andrew Motion, Colm Tóibín, Joanna Trollope, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson & more


In this stunning collection, the best and brightest writers working today reimagine familiar stories from the greatest operas. Don Giovanni's ghost haunts a young boy, Fidelio meets Porgy and Bess and two hapless men stage a Mozartian love test. Long-lost loves enter the dating game and undying witches finally get grey hairs. Funny, macabre or irreverent, these stories are charming for any opera lover and a beguiling collection in their own right.

Winterson's stellar cast delivers plenty of incident as well as atmosphere to power this upbeat collection * Financial Times *
Soars to some hugely enjoyable climaxes * Irish Times *
Wonderfully innovative, creative and fun * The Times *
Offers a glimpse of how the inspirational and the creative juices interact * Spectator *

ISBN: 9781787479555

Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 20mm

Weight: 228g

336 pages