![]() ![]() The final section finds the narrator a few years later, now in a stable relationship with a man from Portugal, yet still susceptible to Mitko’s increasingly erratic charms. ![]() In the second section, the narrator grapples with his father’s illness and his own difficult childhood in the American South. The first centers on the unnamed narrator’s relationship, equal parts attraction and resentment, with the charismatic Mitko. Like the book, the opera - which lasts about 90 minutes - is divided into three sections. “For reasons I didn’t understand at the time, it occupied the same space in my memory as Schubert’s song cycles. ![]() “Its vulnerable, confessional narrative haunted me,” Little writes in a program note. Little, himself a 2022 Grammy nominee, first encountered “What Belongs to You” when Alarm Will Sound co-founder Alan Pierson gave him a copy. 11, Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman will join Brooklyn-based new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound for a special one-night-only preview of a new opera-in-progress - based on Greenwell’s book - by composer and librettist David T. Since its release in 2016, “What Belongs to You,” the debut novel by 2003 Washington University alumnus Garth Greenwell, has won international acclaim for its frank and insightful exploration of desire, identity and formative trauma. ![]()
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