Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King) joins forces with Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal (Frida) to present a darkly comic retelling of the Beowulf epic from the monster’s viewpoint.A passionate thinker trapped in the body of a beast, Grendel struggles to transcend his condition in a quest for meaning and purpose. Based on a novel by John Gardner, Grendel recasts the Beowulf epic from the monster’s point of view in the 2006 world premiere at the LA Opera, traveling East to the Lincoln Center.

