libretto
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Gian Carlo Menotti’s gothic libretto felt weirder than usual.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Scott Gendel composed the music and Sandra Flores-Strand wrote the libretto.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
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
Featuring a libretto by playwright and TV writer David West Read, choreography by Jennifer Weber and nearly 30 hits by Martin, the stakes felt very high going in.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 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
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