Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Shortly before his death, Saramago gave German composer Anno Schreier the rights to compose an opera based on the novel. The libretto is written in German by Kerstin Maria Pöhler. Like the German translation of the novel, the opera's title is "Die Stadt der Blinden". It saw its first performance on November 12, 2011 at the Zurich Opera House. In August 2020, the Donmar Warehouse produced a socially-distanced sound installation based on the novel. BLINDNESS was adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Walter Meierjohann. Juliet Stevenson voiced the Doctor's Wife. See also The Day of the Triffids, the 1951 John Wyndham novel (and its many adaptations) about societal collapse following widespread blindness "Many, Many Monkeys" "The Country of the Blind" by H. G. Wells References 1995 novels 20th-century Portuguese novels Novels by José Saramago Portuguese novels adapted into films Novels about blindness Social science fiction Postmodern novels Metafictional novels