Guerilla Opera will offer two courses to artists who are interested in exploring the art of writing through the lens of opera. The first is the “Guerilla Lab: Libretto Writing”, a four-class summer ...

Irina Gachechiladze’s chamber opera Eva premiered at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, offering a contemporary take on the ...

Lincoln Center Theater will stage a new opera next year based on Lynn Nottage‘s 2004 play Intimate Apparel. Nottage will write the libretto, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, to be directed by To Kill A ...

Incredible talent and fierce competition meet in a tantalizing read that details scandalous tales about life in the opera. Libretto by I.V. Mazzoleni takes readers on a dramatic journey to success ...

For a writer who has done everything from mining an operatic masterpiece ( his 1988 Tony Award-winning drama “M. Butterfly”) to refashioning a problematic Broadway musical (“Flower Drum Song”) to ...

Alexander McCall Smith is best known for his No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series One of Scotland's best-known authors is to write the words for a work being staged by Scottish Opera. Alexander McCall ...

About two years ago, playwright David Henry Hwang turned down an offer to write a play about the brief life and suicide of Army Pvt. Danny Chen. But an opera? He couldn't refuse. "This is a story with ...

One of Scotland's best-known authors is to write the words for a work being staged by Scottish Opera. Alexander McCall Smith will write the libretto for The Friendship Oratorio, which it is hoped can ...