Picker met Sacks at a dinner party in the early nineties, having engineered an introduction so that he could get the doctor’s opinion on his own tics. “We based this on the Grimms’ version, which was much darker than in Disney.” When the piano stopped, a mezzo-soprano singing the part of a patient named Miriam reminded the cast to lock the wheelchairs. “Sleeping Beauty was actually a very tragic story,” Picker said. Twenty chorus members surrounded them, recounting the story of Sleeping Beauty in a sombre lilt: “Our days fade into weeks and years. / Your time is not like time to us. / We all cry unseen tears.” Three of the warehoused patients were being maneuvered in wheelchairs, singing softly, clutching at thin lap blankets, and occasionally convulsing. Picker, sixty-eight, has a Roman nose and salt-and-pepper curls, and he made notes on his score as the cast rehearsed a prologue set in a hospital dayroom. The opera’s East Coast première is this week, at the Huntington Theatre. The story, about a group of patients immobilized by encephalitis lethargica in a Bronx hospital in the sixties, had already inspired a Harold Pinter play and an Oscar-nominated film. He was presiding over a run-through of an opera that he adapted from “Awakenings,” the 1973 book by his late friend the neurologist Oliver Sacks. “It’s like a fairy tale, the whole thing,” the composer Tobias Picker said the other day, standing in a Boston rehearsal studio.
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The National Book Award-winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States. David McCullough (19332022) twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for TRUMAN and JOHN ADAMS, and twice received the National Book Award, for THE PATH BETWEEN. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, John Adams reads like an epic historical novel, breathing fresh life into the history of the American Revolution and the birth of the young republic. 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