libretto

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.”

“Cyrano de Bergerac” is built like a libretto.

Semi-modern dance, silent film, a postmodern libretto with ancient texts, a mad scene that lasts some 95 minutes — it’s a stretch.

Critics, who found its libretto aimless and its three-hour score baggy at best, mostly dismissed it.