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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 ...

When Karel Čapek wrote his play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” in 1920, the battle against machines replacing human labor had been fought for more than a century, with humans invariably losing. Now, more ...

Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood has written her first ever opera libretto, for a production entitled Pauline. The writer's first foray into operatic libretto is a dramatisation of the life ...

“People’s reaction to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic. They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don’t, they may learn to appreciate it, ...

Charles Blow recalls being in the audience at the premiere of the opera based on his memoir, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” and watching the scene that depicts his sexual abuse as a child by an older ...

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 ...