Tuesday, May 23, 2006

News at Eleven: A great opera with a bad libretto

is a contradiction in terms. And a potentially great libretto remains lifeless clay until music gives it breath.

The poet in Mr. [J. D.] McClatchy can live with that. "Words prompt music," he said. "Composers know best how true it is that they depend on the librettist."

from The New York Times: Touch of the Poet, Soul of the Collaborator

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