Picker's 'Claiborne' to premiere at SF Opera

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Opera will present the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s “Dolores Claiborne” on Sept. 18 next year.

The company said Monday that the opera, with a libretto by J.D. McClatchy, will be based on Stephen King’s 1992 novel about a character who denies killing her employer but admits murdering her husband almost three decades earlier after learning he sexually molested their 14-year-old daughter.