Wasp Factory, the opera, gets its debut just months after death of author Iain Banks
An opera based on Iain Banks' first novel The Wasp Factory is to be given its world premiere later this year, just months after his death.
The Wasp Factory makes its debut at the Bregenz Festival in Austria in August before moving on to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
The production, written by Australian composer Ben Frost and librettist David Pountney, is inspired by Banks' story of a violent teenager living in a remote part of Scotland.
Banks died this week at the age of 59. He announced in April that he had been diagnosed with gall bladder cancer and had just months to live.
The Wasp Factory was the first of a string of best-sellers written by Banks who successfully penned darkly-humorous mainstream novels and a series of science-fiction stories.
