The Handmaid's Tale

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The Handmaid's Tale is a 1998 opera by Danish composer Poul Ruders, setting a libretto by Paul Bentley based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. It has a prologue, a prelude, two acts and an epilogue; there is a build-up in each act leading to a big scene. The work premiered in Copenhagen in 2000 and has since been produced in London, Toronto and elsewhere. Bentley's libretto converts a first-person novel into a third-person opera by means of framing devices. The action takes place in a 22nd-century United States taken over by a theocracy named Gilead; it starts with a newsreel-like collage: the narrative first frame.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Handmaid's Tale: 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood · American web television series · 1990 film by Volker Schlöndorff

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The Handmaid's Tale is a 1998 opera by Danish composer Poul Ruders, setting a libretto by Paul Bentley based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. It has a prologue, a prelude, two acts and an epilogue; there is a build-up in each act leading to a big scene. The work premiered in Copenhagen in 2000 and has since been produced in London, Toronto and elsewhere. Bentley's libretto converts a first-person novel into a third-person opera by means of framing devices. The action takes place in a 22nd-century United States taken over by a theocracy named Gilead; it starts with a newsreel-like collage: the narrative first frame.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Handmaid's Tale: 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood · American web television series · 1990 film by Volker Schlöndorff