Tobias Picker adapted the book into an opera (the only adaptation with origins in the U.S.) which had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Opera performing 9–22 December in 1998.[5][6] the Opera starred Gerald Finley as Mr Fox and Suzanna Guzman as Mrs Fox.[5] A specially commissioned new version of this opera by Opera Holland Park was performed in the gardens and natural scenery of Holland Park in the summer of 2010 staged by Stephen Barlow.