Awakenings (opera)

Awakenings is an opera in two acts composed by Tobias Picker, with a libretto by Aryeh Lev Stollman.

[4][5][6] The East Coast premiere of Awakenings was performed by Odyssey Opera in partnership with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conducted by Gil Rose and directed by James Robinson, on February 25, 2023, at the newly renovated Huntington Theater.

I have watched him as he sits almost motionless for hours, orchestrating one of his études for piano at his computer ... Picker writes in every mode—the dreamy and tranquil no less than the violent and stormy—and moves from one mood to another with consummate ease.

[14]In 2010, Picker composed a ballet, Awakenings, for the Rambert Dance Company, inspired by the book by Oliver Sacks.

[15][16] Later in the decade, Picker and his husband, the novelist and neurologist Aryeh Lev Stollman, began to develop an opera based upon Awakenings.