In the Wings

Now about to turn 70, Poul Ruders has created an immense catalogue of music, diverse, distinctive, and distinguished.

Imagine living in a world that tells you what to wear, where to live, what your position and value to society is and how to procreate. What would happen if choice was taken away from you?

Why are there so many feminist dystopias in fiction and so few in opera? Can The Handmaid’s Tale, as both an opera and the foremother of the genre, bridge this gap?