Where the Wild Things Are (opera) Wild Things should be played by dancers on stage with singers (amplified) off-stage". Max is a rambunctious boy who dresses in a wolf suit. After he throws a tantrum, Mama (his mother) confines him to his room. Max then escapes in his dreams to a forest, and then to the island of the Wild Things. The Wild Things eventually hail Max as their king, and the "coronation" culminates in a frenzied dance, the Wild Rumpus. In the course of the Rumpus, Tzippy, the female Wild Thing, loses her head, which causes Max to halt the Rumpus. At the end, the
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