![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s like a terrible dream,” Ms Sadat says.ĭirecting the opera, which has its premiere on February 25th, “has now become a responsibility” of great significance, Ms Sadat says. The family has not been able to return since and is seeking asylum in America. Yet in the summer of 2021 Ms Sadat was travelling from Kabul to Seattle with her husband and children to attend a production meeting when her sister texted to say that the Taliban had retaken power. That was still true in 2012, when Mr Hosseini gave the rights to the book to Sheila Silver, an American composer who has written the score. Mr Hosseini’s book was published several years after the Islamic fundamentalist regime had been toppled readers could take some comfort from the fact that much of the brutality described was, in theory, a thing of the past. ![]()
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