I wrote my first opera libretto. It’s called “Take Care of Him,” and it’s a story of an elderly man who mistreats the woman who looks after him. She gets her son to kill him. Except the old man won’t die.
The composer is Nicolas Reveles, recently retired from San Diego Opera. Nic played and sang the whole thing through for me for the first time last week. He knocked me over — this stuff is intense!
The libretto is “done,” but opera is never really done-done. There’s still orchestration to do, and we’re picking singers to learn the roles so we can pitch it to opera companies. But for now it’s a pretty big victory of which I’m very proud.