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

An ex-ENO artistic head and the director who staged War Horse working on a contemporary opera about drug addiction crisis

The opioid crisis is to be the subject of a new opera by a former artistic director of English National Opera (ENO) and the man behind 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.