Youngest composer to have ever been commissioned by the metropolitan opera, two boys. The story combines two elements rarely seen on the operatic stage: a police procedure and a dramatization of the mysterious and lonely lives of those who inhabit the darkest corners of the internet. Why did you pick this topic matter? I'm glad that it read as being a very new thing, cause in my head it was actually a very old thing.
Debbie talks to composer Nico Muhly about his music and about the musicians who interpret it.