Tod Machover’s opera SCHOENBERG IN HOLLYWOOD has its European premiere in Vienna in two weeks. “I hear great things about how rehearsals are going over there, and I pop over to Vienna next weekend to supervise the final week of preparations,” he says. “This story of a refugee from war-torn Europe in search of musical, political and spiritual resolution has uncanny resonance in the light of current events – heightened by the fact that Vienna is only ca. 350 miles from Lviv, Ukraine, about the distance from Boston to Philadelphia. It is sure to be an impactful experience, on many levels.”