Angels in America was a hit play and an acclaimed TV event. But “what possessed Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos to make an opera out of this already operatic play? ‘The dream scenes, the hallucinations, ghosts, heaven … these are fantastic for music. It’s much harder to make an opera out of real life. And the situation with Aids creates great drama – the characters are touched by the knowledge that their life might be cut short at any moment’.”