It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera.
McEwan says he is working on an adaptation with composer Michael Berkeley and poet Craig Raine, who will write the libretto.
McEwan told Friday's Times newspaper he wanted it to be on a grand scale, saying "it's not a chamber piece, that's for sure."
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