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 ...

In Gioachino Rossini's "Otello," it's not jealousy that proves the downfall of the title character. It's Francesco Berio di Salsa's libretto. In fairness, that's an oversimplification of complicated ...

Discover how a play becomes a sung opera. Composer Daniela Candillari explains the process behind adapting stories like "Romeo and Juliet." ...

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 ...

The author on the path to writing an opera with Colin Matthews for the Aldeburgh Festival The opera came out of the blue. Colin Matthews had read some of my books, and I got this lovely, long ...