Alex Ross on John Harbison's operatic adaptation, from 2000.

It is also a natural for operatic adaptation, though it's not likely that many composers would have had the imagination to hear it that way.

But of course historical accuracy doesn't count for much in operatic adaptation, and the historical backdrop of "Puritani" is workable enough.

The first operatic adaptation of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" premieres in London this week.

Giuseppe Verdi's 1867 operatic adaptation of the play, Don Carlos, has been called "one of his most human operas".

This verse translation became a classic in its own right and later provided the basis for the libretto to Tchaikovsky's operatic adaptation.

Shohat's opera is the first operatic adaptation of a Levin work.

He made his name in America with an operatic adaptation of the play King René's Daughter (1893), presented as a one-act lyrical drama.

Shortly after he completed Notre-Dame de Paris in 1830, Hugo began sketching out an operatic adaptation.

The Handmaid's Tale (the operatic adaptation of the novel)