OFFSTAGE

How did Blue begin?

This is the third piece director Francesca Zambello has commissioned from me. There was the Eugene O’Neill opera with Tony Kushner, , and , based on the Jeanette Winterson’s book. For this one she just said, “I want a really political opera.” She knew that my appetite was for complicated issues, and trying to find out what’s dangling at the end of them. So librettist Tazewell Thompson and I