The Winter's Tale (opera) British composer's first opera." The Winter's Tale (opera) The Winter's Tale is an opera in three acts by Ryan Wigglesworth. The libretto is by the composer, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. The opera, in a production directed by Rory Kinnear, and conducted by the composer, was premiered at the English National Opera on 27 February 2017. The opera follows the main story of the play, reduced to three acts, and dropping the character Autolycus, and some other well-known features of the play such as Antigonus's stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear". Act I
Exit Ghost results. The older Zuckerman, though not pleased, was more philosophical and was able to place the results into a more historical context. The stage direction, "exit ghost" appears in three of William Shakespeare's plays: "Hamlet", "Macbeth" and "Julius Caesar". In a BBC interview, Roth stated that using this direction as a title "came to me because of "Macbeth". Last year in the summer I was going to see a production of "Macbeth" here in America, and I re-read the script that afternoon, and I came upon the Banquo scene, ghost scene, and it just leaped out — 'exit ghost' —