Atonement

Ian McEwan is planning to help create "Atonement: The Opera."

From the story in The Guardian...

Now the pair are at it again, telling the Times this morning that an operatic adaptation of Atonement is in the works. This time, McEwan isn't writing the libretto himself – he'll hand it over to poet Craig Raine after helping to shape it; Berkeley is writing the music. The project grew out of interest from a German opera house, we learn, and a co-production with New York and London houses is pencilled in for 2013.

And the author is thinking big. "It's not a chamber piece, that's for sure," he told the Times. "You can do some very big dramatic things with this. If you were thinking of a large-scale opera then what springs to mind is 380,000 troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. That would be quite a choir."