Opioids the Opera: painkiller’s ‘lurid tale of greed’ inspires new production

Seth Numrich in a scene from a production of War Horse at the Lincoln Centre Theatre in New York in 2011. Photograph: Paul Kolnik/ASSOCIATED PRESS

The opioid crisis is to be the subject of a new opera by a former artistic director of English National Opera (ENO) and the co-director of the stage adaptation of War Horse.

The Galloping Cure would tell “a lurid tale of the greed surrounding the tragedy of the opioid crisis”, said Tom Morris, its director.