In 2007, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler began a new collaborative project inspired by American author Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, set in pharaonic Egypt. The project was conceived as a nontraditional opera with a series of one-ti...
The project, based on the acclaimed Jonathan Franzen novel, follows an elderly Midwest couple and their three children who look back on their lives together from the mid-20th century to their final Christmas....