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Mike Watt and Petra Haden have teamed up as Pelicanman for Planet Chernobyl, an opera featuring the words of poet Charles Plymell, who published the words that the opera is based on back in 2015. Plymell started working on his piece about Chernobyl after reading Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices Of Chernobyl: The Oral History Of A Nuclear Disaster. Watt, who met Plymell in 2006 and has collaborated with him a number of times over the years, first read Planet Chernobyl seven years ago.