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Two Boys is an opera in two acts by American composer Nico Muhly, with an English-language libretto by American playwright Craig Lucas. The opera's story is based on real events in Manchester, England, in 2001 as described in a 2005 Vanity Fair article titled "You Want Me 2 Kill Him?"
Aug 18, 2014 · 64. 13K views 9 years ago. Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys, recorded live during the Metropolitan Opera’s 2013 production with conductor David Robertson and director Bartlett Sher, is out now...
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- Nonesuch Records
Jun 30, 2011 · “Two Boys,” a new opera by Nico Muhly, draws on a real incident from 2003 in England to examine identity and alienation in the online world.
Oct 22, 2013 · Nico Muhly has a voice, a Muhly sound, and it comes through consistently in his opera “Two Boys,” a dark, ambitious and innovative work that had its much anticipated American premiere on...
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Two Boys. Buy Tickets. Nico Muhly’s gripping new opera, loosely inspired by real events, explores the shadowy world of the Internet as a detective investigates the stabbing of one teenage boy by another—and discovers a tangled web of online intrigue. Rising tenor Paul Appleby stars as Brian, the young man at the center of the story ...
Two Boys. from Tuesday, October 14th of the year 2014. Act I. In March 2001 in an English industrial city, before widespread use of the internet, Detective Anne Strawson is given a case she does not want: Jake, 14, has been stabbed in the heart and remains comatose; Brian, 16, stands accused but maintains his innocence.
Two Boys. from Tuesday, September 30th of the year 2014. Nonesuch releases Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys—recorded live during the Metropolitan Opera’s 2013 production with conductor David Robertson and director Bartlett Sher—on September 30, 2014. The two-act opera, which features a libretto by award-winning playwright Craig Lucas, is ...