Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera

Tony Kushner's harrowing play Angels in America became a film, a TV series and finally an opera. As it makes its UK debut, John O'Mahony meets the playwright – and one very enterprising composer, Péter EötvösIt's almost 17 years since I sat in a diner off New York's Union Square, anxiously waiting to interview Tony Kushner, then the hottest playwright on the planet. The first part of Angels in America, his epic seven-hour "Gay Fantasia on National Themes", had already scooped a P...

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