Over the years, it evolved to approximately 50 pages. My first version of the libretto was very short, perhaps 10 pages. The challenge, however, was irresistible, as well as the opportunity to work with so gifted and versatile a composer. When the distinguished American composer John Duffy first contacted me, inviting me to collaborate with him on an opera based upon my novel Black Water (1992), to be commissioned by the American Music Theater Festival, I felt daunted by the prospect of writing a libretto though I've written numerous plays and books of poetry, had never so much as read an opera libretto the genre was entirely new to me.
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