The writer’s gripping tale of a young girl trapped in a button-eyed world has been turned into a macabre opera. Did they tone down the horror? Our writer meets composer Mark-Anthony Turnage as she ...
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera captures the spooky essence of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, though the music risks losing out to plot twists Discovering your parents have shrunk to tiny figures locked in ...
Still, the run is sold out. I suspect that's less to do with Turnage than with literary megastar Gaiman. His novella - inexplicably not on sale at the Barbican, or I'd have bought a copy - has the ...
Coraline began life in 2002 as a novella by Neil Gaiman. Henry Selick directed an animated film version in 2009, and now it has received the operatic treatment from Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist ...
Coraline is an opera written for the the younger audience and is based on Neil Gaiman's novel Coraline. It's been compared as a modern Alice in Wonderland. Coraline (Robyn Allegra Parton) moves to a ...
Mark-Anthony Turnage's Coraline from the ROH/Barbican 2018. Photos by Stephen Cummiskey. Copyright © 2025 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external ...
The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Coraline - an operatic version of the dark fantasy tale by Neil Gaiman, directed by Aletta Collins with libretto by Rory Mullarkey. Neil Gaiman has ...
The Royal Opera’s new production, created by Mark-Anthony Turnage, will have its world premiere at the Barbican next year. Gaiman’s story, about a girl who finds a secret door in her house, was ...
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