An opera about Schoenberg in Hollywood

Jstheater says:

This sounds very intriguing. I wonder whether Machover will weave not just 12-tone but tonal music, including snippets of Schoenberg’s music itself, into his composition? His final years in Los Angeles were quite fruitful: he completed his Second Chamber Symphony, his Violin and Piano Concerti, the Kol Nidre, and deeply moving A Survivor from Warsaw. Will Machover also include at least one scene of the Sunday gatherings at the Schoenbergs’ home in Brentwood, which drew the likes of George Gershwin, Edgard Varèse, Harpo Marx, Thomas Mann, Ernst Toch, and Peter Lorre? (Shirley Temple directly lived across the street; did she visit?)

I also wonder whether someone else is considering commissioning (or already has) an opera based on Thomas Mann’s 1947 novel and masterpiece *Doctor Faustus,* which itself draws upon not just the Faust story, but Nietzsche’s life and Schoenberg’s musical innovations. Schoenberg apparently–and rightly–was so upset at Mann’s incorporation of his ideas and methods (including material from Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre) that he was able to get Mann to append a note crediting Schoenberg as the inventor of the 12-note compositional approach. With the right librettist, I could see Thomas Adès doing a very fine job.