Opioids the Opera: painkiller’s ‘lurid tale of greed’ inspires new production

An ex-ENO artistic head and the director who staged War Horse working on a contemporary opera about drug addiction crisis

The opioid crisis is to be the subject of a new opera by a former artistic director of English National Opera (ENO) and the man behind the stage adaptation of War Horse.

The Galloping Cure would tell a lurid tale of the greed surrounding the tragedy of the opioid crisis", said Tom Morris, its director.