One Is the Loneliest Number - Huffington Post
22 May 2012, 10:53 am
But the monkey is finally facing facts, and putting the pieces back together. MONKEY BUSINESS by Tony Asaro (Composer/librettist) But like, I soooo don't get it! Things were going really well. Like really well. We were totally on the same page. And like ...

Alan Menken & Harvey Fierstein Talk NEWSIES on Theater Talk Tonight, 5/19 - Broadway World
18 May 2012, 9:32 am
Harvey Fierstein and Alan Menken – librettist and composer of the new crowd-pleasing musical Newsies – are interviewed on a new THEATER TALK this weekend, premiering tonight, May 19 (2012) at 8:30 PM on CUNY TV*, followed by airings Sunday 5 ...

Leonie Brodie Returns To New Zealand - Scoop
16 May 2012, 5:12 pm
Ulla's Odyssey is her second collaboration with New Zealand composer Anthony Young. They met in Toronto, during Tapestry New Opera Works' acclaimed Composer-librettist Laboratory, fondly known as the Liblab, which artistic director Wayne Strongman ...

Aaron Sorkin To Write 'Steve Jobs' Movie - MTV
16 May 2012, 11:07 am
Sorkin is currently in production for HBO's "The Newsroom," which is set to premiere on June 24. He'll also try his hand as a librettist for the first time on Broadway's 2013-14 production of "Houdini," starring Hugh Jackman.

And the Walls Came A-Tumbalin' Down - Huffington Post
15 May 2012, 9:42 am
MONKEY BUSINESS by Tony Asaro (Composer/librettist) I learned much of what I know about theatre in my high school drama class: the parts of the stage, the basic terminology, what beats are, Character-Relationship-Objective-Where. And, I learned that while ...

Korp case opera ready for opening night - The Age
15 May 2012, 8:59 am
Joe Korp. Photo: Craig Abraham Still, she admits to being ''daunted'' when Victorian Opera boss Richard Gill offered her the job after librettist Louis Nowra, who was originally slated to direct, withdrew, reportedly due to ill health. ''My opera education ...

Marcy Heisler, Andrew Gerle and Matt Schatz Win Kleban Prizes; Each Receives $100,000 Prize - Playbill
14 May 2012, 2:16 pm
The award for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has gone to Marcy Heisler, while the Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre librettist was a tie between Andrew Gerle and Matt Schatz. Each of the artists will receive a $100,000 prize.

Music of Remembrance stages premiere of Jake Heggie's work - Seattle Times
14 May 2012, 7:28 am
With librettist Gene Scheer, Heggie penned a drama for MOR based on the true story of daring Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Krystyna Zywulska, who wrote poetry, songs and satirical works in the camps. Zywulska escaped the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 ...

Notes from a lethal love affair - The Age
11 May 2012, 6:58 pm
AT A rehearsal this week of Midnight Son, the new Australian opera by librettist Louis Nowra and composer Gordon Kerry, there is a nervous energy in the room. I spy the stage manager's score. There are pencil marks all over the copy. But one, in particular ...

Los Angeles Philharmonic's 'Don Giovanni' stars the music - Los Angeles Times
11 May 2012, 6:01 pm
Instead, above all, the production of this first of the Phil's planned trilogy of operas that Mozart wrote with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte will try to serve the dazzling score, say the creative principals, who include director Christopher Alden.