libretto

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Mr. Jackson’s smart and singable libretto is a potent throughline, its surface comedy floating above a dark and—naturally—complicated view of the modern age.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Scene 2, a scrim projection informs us, takes place eight years later, moving us back into the time frame of the original libretto.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 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

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