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Article: GETTING MEDIEVAL IN `GRENDEL' DIRECTOR TAYMOR, PUPPETEER CURRY TEAM UP FOR L.A. OPERA.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 24, 2006
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Byline: Evan Henerson Staff Writer
Getting together brings out the beast in them.
Anyone who's seen the fabulous creatures of the stage version of ``The Lion King'' knows that. And now Julie Taymor and Michael Curry are at it again with ``Grendel,'' the new opera by composer Elliot Goldenthal, premiering Saturday at the Los Angeles Opera.
Taymor is the theatrically trained, mythology-savvy director of plays, films and operas. And Curry is the art historian and sculptor with no dramatic training who nonetheless knows more than a little bit about puppets.
She lives in New York; he runs his studio in Scappoose, Ore. Both routinely ...