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Love Counts is a 2005 opera in two acts by Michael Nyman on a libretto by Michael Hastings. The opera premiered March 12, 2005 at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, directed by Robert Tannenbaum. It was performed in London at the Almeida Opera on July 14, 2006, directed by Lindsay Posner, designed by Peter McKintosh, and conducted by Paul McGrath. The opera begins with Patsy Bear (spelled Bear in the libretto bu... more
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Michael Hastings

Michael Gerald Hastings (born 1938 in London) is a British playwright, screen-writer, and occasional novelist and poet. He is probably best known for his 1984 play about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood, Tom & Viv which became a motion picture released in 1994. His early plays ...

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Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Edward Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944, Stratford, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many movie scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi...
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