libretto

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Six years later, Gershwin persuaded Heyward to help him transform it into an opera—with Heyward writing the libretto and sharing lyric duties with George’s brother, Ira.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Nor is it David Henry Hwang’s user-friendly libretto based on the late Ming Dynasty Chinese classic, “Journey to the West.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

The late Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the English libretto for Les Misérables, felt he was not given enough credit for transforming the original French musical into the hugely popular English-language version, letters have revealed.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

From a forthcoming choral libretto premiering in Finland to a graphic novel retelling of the "Epic of Gilgamesh," Macfarlane’s creative orbit keeps expanding.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

The offending piece was Theodora, a setting of a libretto by his friend Thomas Morell, which itself was based on an account of the early Christian martyr by Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall