Fabiana Piccioli lights the US West Coast premiere of "The Handmaid's Tale" at San Francisco Opera

“Harrowing, must-see” (San Francisco Chronicle")

Based on Margaret Atwood’s celebrated novel about a terrifying dystopian future, with women forced into childbearing servitude by an extremist theocratic regiment, Poul Ruder’s operatic drama “The Handmaid’s Tale” with the libretto by Paul Bentley, directed by John Fulljames, and lit by Fabiana Piccioli, makes its west coast premiere in the United States at the San Francisco Opera from 14 September to 1 October.