Herakles Mad

A Greek myth about the origin of democracy Bryce Dessner, one of the leading composers of film music and orchestral works, as well as with his band The National, is writing his first opera. Together with the visual artist Ragnar Kjartansson, he engages with the 'H of H Playbook' by the renowned poet Anne Carson: a rewriting of Euripides' tragedy of Heracles.