Sky in a Small Cage is an English-language opera with music by British composer Rolf Hind and libretto by American poet Dante Micheaux.
The opera features the relationship between the 13th-century poet Rumi, and the Sufi dervish Shams Tabrizi without literally embodying the characters.
The main narrative action ends with the death of Shams Tabrizi and Rumi's coming-to-terms with it in his work and life.
The opera heavily features poetry from the librettist Dante Micheaux, as well as Rumi's work in English translation.
[6] The contemporary music writer Tim Rutherford-Johnson gave the opera a positive review, saying "Sky in a Small Cage is one of those works...that contained everything of an artist, the thing they have been put on earth to say," and found it "beautiful" and moving.