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The adaptation necessarily cut down what was presumably a three-hour play into about forty minutes of libretto, to make room for songs in the intermissionless ninety-five minutes.

"No room at the inn," the libretto summarizes.

And he has kept a hand in films and theater, having conducted the recording of Elliot Goldenthal's score for the recent film "Titus" and written the music and libretto for the musical "Blood on the Dining Room Floor," which runs through next Sunday at the WPA Theater in New York.

As I write, Madame Mao is singing "Hit it boys" in my head, and I'm looking forward to my favourite line in Alice Goodman's magnificent libretto: when Chinese premier Chou En-Lai sings, "Outside this room, the chill of grace/ Lies heavy on the morning grass", set to Adams's melancholic viola solo and shimmering, ambiguous harmony.

(Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Loewith collaborated on the superb libretto.) Mr. Zero's hollowed-out soul leaves little room for anything but these numbers.

A pamphlet of my libretto for the piece was being prepared and someone called across the room: "What do we put, Harry?

To compensate for the opera's famously silly and thin libretto — a woman who is about to be married sleepwalks into the room of a man who is not her intended; scandal ensues; her doubting groom discovers her sleepwalking again; her honor is restored — the director, Mary Zimmerman, had given the production a playful conceit.

It consisted of seven rooms that corresponded with the seven sections of the libretto.

Standing in the center of the room, Peaches, the diminutive dynamo of raunchy electronic rock, was singing the entire libretto alone, just as she will in her one-woman show, "Peaches Christ Superstar," which was to begin its North American tour on Friday in Boston.

Jean Cocteau's libretto specifies that the woman, known only as Elle, is seen "sprawled on a bed in a room that looks as if a murder has been committed".

Royce Vavrek wrote the libretto.