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He also wrote the libretto, about a mythical black leader, and choreographed it.

Why did he write a libretto about a depressed egg and a spoon?

Still, the teenage Atwood was already writing musical comedies, commercial jingles, even a brief opera libretto about synthetic fabrics.

Although "Epistasis" shared similar elements — including an abstruse libretto about two satellites in love — this second ballet looked more abstract and the better for it.

So fascinated, in fact, that Mr. Kovachev, a composer in his spare time, decided to write a libretto about Mr. Ivanov's life and to stage a musical about him.

Ravenhill has returned the compliment by writing a libretto about the great plague of London, taking inspiration from Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe and Susan Sontag's polemical work, Aids and Its Metaphors.

Composers were free to use strange harmonies, to divorce themselves from traditional librettos about gods and nymphs frolicking in magic forests.

"The libretto is about 50 or 60percentt of Shakespeare's original text," Sir Peter said.

Even a neophyte operagoer, using the Web, can easily make arrangements to see a particular opera, study the libretto, learn about its production history and sample some of its music.

Very rarely is the libretto specific about the height and/ or weight of a character.

Opera fans summarily dismiss complaints about librettos as being beside the point.