Based on the Academy Award-winning 1994 Italian film andthe 1985 novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarmeta, Il Postino tells the story of a young postman who discovers the courage to pursue his ...

Millions of people around the world fell in love with the 1994 film Il Postino - and Mexican-born, Los Angeles-based composer Daniel Catán was one of the most smitten. "I immediately thought it would ...

Have you ever sat down to watch a movie and thought, ‘Hey, this would make a good opera’? No? Most people who saw the popular Italian, “Two Thumbs Way Up!” movie “Il Postino” back in the 1990s ...

“Il Postino,” which is having its debut run at Los Angeles Opera right now, is almost shockingly easy to like. Operatic premieres aren’t supposed to be like this. They’re supposed to be challenging to ...

As opera composer Daniel Catán tells the story, many years ago he had a poet friend who wrote “really wonderful erotic” verse. So one memorable evening Catán decided to try out a few lines on his ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Every summer there is one production that is so good that you want everyone to see it. This year that production is “Il Postino” at Opera Saratoga. It is still available at the ...

After blowing a hole in the budget with a controversial Wagner “Ring” cycle in the midst of a sour economy, it would be understandable if the Los Angeles Opera reverted to a holding pattern of ...

Never before at Opera Saratoga have all aspects of a production been so consistently strong and seamlessly integrated, as with Daniel Catán's "Il Postino," which opened Thursday night. With all ...

Tenor Placido Domingo will create the role of Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda in a new opera, “Il Postino,” by Mexican composer Daniel Catan, Los Angeles Opera company artistic director ...

Daniel Catan's has adapted the popular 1994 film Il Postino as an opera. Acclaimed Mexican composer Daniel Catan's (Rappaccini Daughter, Florencia en el Amazonas, Salsipuedes) has adapted the popular ...

The opera Il Postino (The Postman) focuses on Mario, a poor fisherman s son turned personal postman for Pablo Neruda, one of Chile s most famous and controversial poets. Neruda takes Mario under his ...