Michael Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.8660398

By Dean Williamson, Matthew Treviño, Nashville Opera Orchestra, Rebecca Sjowall, and Ryan MacPherson. By Michael Nyman. Classical. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.8660398).

UPC: 730099039871.

Michael Nyman's one-act chamber opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat takes as its subject Dr. P, a man suffering from visual agnosia, or "mental blindness", and is adapted from the neurological study in the book of the same name by Oliver Sacks. For Nyman, Dr. P "requires music as a lifeline, cue, clue, cure", living as he does in a world lacking visual meaning. It is through his musical gifts that Dr. P reclaims meaning from chaos, Nyman's tautly conceived masterpiece providing a perfect medium through which the moving drama can be explored.

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