Incredibly Loud … on Stage

By Kathryn 

fopera.jpgI’m not sure I could imagine any combination I’d dislike more than Jonathan Safran Foer and opera, but there you have it. Foer’s libretto, Seven Attempted Escapes from Silence, is getting its debut next month at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

(Incidentally, I just noticed that Houghton Mifflin, appropriately enough, labels its pictures of Foer “foer$jonathan$safran.gif.”)