Patchett says she even thinks the opera’s libretto, or script, is better than the book.īel Canto is running in Chicago until the middle of January. ” ‘No, I think that should be a C-flat.’ Don’t you really want to hear that from your novelist?” “Can you imagine the alternative?” Patchett joked. In an interview with Fleming in Chicago recently, she told the audience that it seemed like the best idea. Patchett’s novel got operatic interest after she met a real-life opera superstar, Renee Fleming, who decided to turn it into a production. Patchett handed over creative control. One of the hostages is a world-renowned opera singer whose musical gift transcends the language barriers in the standoff. He’s not there, it turns out, but they hold the party captive anyway - for several months. In the story, terrorists swarm the birthday party of a foreign ambassador in an attempt to find Peru’s president. 'I have only the vaguest understanding of what TikTok is, said Ann Patchett, owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville. But in a fractious world, Bel Canto remains a gentle reminder of the transcendence of beauty and love. Ultimately, of course, something has to give, even in a novel so imbued with the rich imaginative potential of magic realism. The musical version of Bel Canto, which is loosely based on a hostage situation in Peru’s capital in the ‘90s, was commissioned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Time stands still, priorities rearrange themselves. An opera based on a 2001 novel by Nashville award-winning author Ann Patchett debuted this week in Chicago.
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