Waiting for the Sibyl by William Kentridge. Koenig Books. 2020. ISBN-13: 978-3960988656. "First published by Koenig Books, London" stated with no listing of later printings. 8 3/4" x 10 3/4" unpaginated Hardcover with dust jacket. DUST JACKET: Maybe a bit of light edge wear on the top and bottom of the spine. Otherwise, no clips, tears, unusual folds or missing pieces. BOOK: I really don't see any flaws in this book. No previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. LJ02a
"This volume publishes the libretto of William Kentridge’s (born 1955) chamber opera Waiting for the Sibyl, which was made for the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and first performed there in September 2019. Music for the opera was composed by Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Kyle Shepherd. The images and phrases were projected on variously sized screens in the opera, sometimes in sync with the sung text, sometimes independent of any sung text. In the opera production, the right-hand page generally featured text, and the left-hand page a mixture of drawings and the shadow of a dancer cast onto its surface.
William Kentridge: Waiting for the Sibyl includes more and different drawings than are used in the opera. This book is compiled and published in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e. during a time in which it is not possible to perform the opera live. It is therefore undertaken in anticipation of the time when the opera can be seen in its full form." - from an Amazon review