libretto

Since 1996, she has published books of poetry, short fiction, essays and graphic novels; she wrote the libretto for an opera; and she wrote a novel that will remain unread for nearly 100 years.

Kentridge’s libretto is an assemblage of the characters’ words and a range of other historical sources.

He would grab a bunch of different librettos and “Wicked” was one of them.

This was particularly notable in a reading of the libretto for a proposed new opera by Ted Hearn, one of our most politically outspoken composers, based on Ursula K Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed.”

The last lines of Waldman’s libretto are, “All I want is out of here.”