A sleeper cell is coming to the opera stage. The Minnesota Opera is commissioning a work based on “The Manchurian Candidate,†the 1959 thriller that also was transposed into two movies.
The composer is Kevin Puts, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music this year, and the librettist is Mark Campbell. The new opera is scheduled to be performed in the 2014-15 season.
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