An open Zoom discussion about the role of the librettist in new opera
You are invited to join in an open Zoom discussion about the role of the librettist in new opera today.
Who chooses what stories are told? Does it matter to you who does the telling? Why are the ‘universal’ stories usually told by white men? What is the role of the people who commission and produce new work?
Do writers from diverse backgrounds have to ‘out’ themselves as ‘other’ and does doing so then confine their work to their own lived experience?
