Iraq veteran Brian Castner (center) poses with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann and composer Jeremy Howard Beck, who are adapting Castner's PTSD memoir, The Long Walk, into an opera at New York's American Lyric Theater. (npr.org)
In conjunction with the installation LAUREN HALSEY — WE STILL HERE, THERE, poet, performer, and librettist Douglas Kearney will read from his work. (paris-la.com)
Despite attempts of harmonizers and oratorio librettists to concoct something called the Seven Last Words, Jesus» words from the cross in each Gospel provide a perspective on each evangelist's particular theological understanding of the crucifixion. (religion-online.org)