Where the Wild Things Are (opera) dream is over, and Max starts to eat the food his Mama had left for him during his dream time. Where the Wild Things Are (opera) Where the Wild Things Are, Op. 20, is a 'fantasy' opera in one act by Oliver Knussen to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own children's book of the same title. Knussen composed the music from 1979 to 1983, on commission from the Opèra National, Brussels. In form and subject matter the work relates to Maurice Ravel's "L'enfant et les sortilèges", as well as Stravinsky's "The Nightingale". Knussen also included a number
Where the Wild Things Are was produced by New York City Opera in spring 2011. In 1983, the Walt Disney Studio conducted a series of tests of computer-generated imagery created by Glen Keane and John Lasseter using as their subject "Where the Wild Things Are". In 1999, Isadar released a solo piano musical composition titled "Where the Wild Things Are" which appeared on his album "Active Imagination", inspired by the Sendak book. The composition was revisited and re-recorded in 2012 on Isadar's album, "Reconstructed", with Grammy winner and founder of Windham Hill Records, William Ackerman, producing. The 2005 "Simpsons" episode, "The Girl Who Slept Too