[Excerpt from beginning of interview]
The "Drillalians" opera series was created after your novel. How did the idea arise of creating a simultaneous opera come in five evenings?
The novel was called a romance opera. I'm writing a whole series of novels, but not novels-operas called the "Drillalian" cycle. This work is closely related to my diary. Like many of my works, this is part of a single text that goes through the process of heightened, subjective writing filled with rhythms that are peculiar to the practice of diary writing that I have evolved over the years. For me, a diary is not just a record of impressions and events of life, but also the recording of ideas, dreams, fantasies, all sorts of dreams and some free-flung journeys of the consciousness that I resolve to undertake....