"And what is so rare as a day in June?" Well, I'd say a soft evening in June--outside, on the lawn on the grounds of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, enjoying one's picnic and wine. It was most lovely.

“It’s like a fairy tale, the whole thing,” the composer Tobias Picker said the other day, standing in a Boston rehearsal studio. He was presiding over a run-through of an opera that he adapted from ...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis returned to full programming this spring for the first time since the outbreak of Covid-19 with a pair of new works originally intended for its seasons in 2020 and 2021, ...

Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman have adapted “Awakenings,” drawing both on source material and personal experience. By Joshua Barone “These are all cycads,” the composer Tobias Picker said, ...

The 1990 film of Oliver Sacks' “Awakenings” portrayed Sacks as a heterosexual man with a female love interest. That's because he didn't come out until years later. Now, an opera based on the book ...

It’s probably too soon to declare Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s ‘Awakenings’ a modern classic, but it could become one given the opportunity. Before we entered the Huntington Theatre on ...

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis presents the World Premier of the opera Awakenings by Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman, accompanied by members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.An eye-opening tale ...