The Shining is an American opera in two acts and an epilogue, with music by composer Paul Moravec and a libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the 1977 novel by Stephen King.
The opera received its world premiere on May 7, 2016 at the Ordway Music Theater, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Moravec and Campbell deliberately designed their opera to hew more closely to King's original novel, compared to the 1980 film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
The family then meets Dick Hallorann, the hotel cook, who shows Wendy and Danny around the kitchen.
Ullman privately tells Jack of concerns about his past personal history, which includes physical abuse and alcoholism.
Watson also reveals stories about the hotel's past: an earlier caretaker, Delbert Grady, killed his wife and two daughters, and then himself.
Several weeks later in the caretaker's quarters, Wendy reads Treasure Island to Danny as Jack works on his play.
Danny utters the word "Redrum", which Wendy dismisses as a reaction to Treasure Island.
Wendy notes Jack's growing obsession with the Overlook Hotel, and requests that they leave immediately.
Later that day Al Shockley calls Jack and tells him not to make Ullman mad and not to write a book about the Overlook.
In the first week of November, strange noises awaken Wendy, and Danny runs into his parents' bedroom in a panic.
Danny appears with his clothes wet, bruises around his neck, and lipstick marks on his face.
The structure of the hotel suddenly collapses and reveals all of its apparitions, including Delbert Grady, Mrs Massey, Horace Derwent, and the guests of the New Year's Eve party.
Onstage, Horace Derwent, Grady, and Lloyd sing, and Mark Torrance then joins them, as eventually does Jack.
Grady and Derwent appear to Jack, telling him to kill Wendy later, as Hallorann is approaching the hotel on a snowmobile.
Derwent, Grady, and Lloyd appear, reproach Jack, and warn him that the boiler is about to explode.
He has snapped his father's cane, which Mark had used to beat his own wife, Jack's mother, years before.
[1][5][6][7][8][9][10] The libretto and occasional incidental aspects of the music and staging received minimal criticism: