Scene to Song Episode 7: The Opera Libretto vs. the Book in Musical Theater

from Scene to Song · host Shoshana Greenberg

In this episode, composer, writer, and director John Grimmett discusses the opera libretto vs. the book in musical theater, including the eternal question: what makes a piece an opera and what makes a piece a musical? We also talk about the song sequence "Montage/Safe/The One I Love" from Michael John LaChiusa's 1993 musical Hello Again.

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