libretto

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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

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

And the libretto, you know—I’m gonna bum out libretto fans—the libretto is not really what opera is about.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2025

What’s more, he wrote the libretto as well as the music, and drew up the specifications of the purpose- built theatre at Bayreuth in which it was to be performed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall