TORONTO -- The year was 1985 -- and as thinking people all over the globe heaved a sigh of relief that this world had escaped the horrors foretold in George Orwell's 1984, Canada's Margaret Atwood released a cautionary novel that would prove, over time, to be every bit as disturbing as Orwell's tome and, sadly, a little more prescient.

That book, titled The Handmaid's Tale, has since spawned not only a movie of the same name, but more recently, an opera, which premiered in Denmark four years ago. After too long, that opera has eventually made its way to Atwood's homeland.
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