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Nicholas Verney Wright
Librettist

Biography
Nicholas Verney Wright (born 1940, Cape Town, South Africa) is a British dramatist. Nicholas adapted Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials for the National, where his versions of John Gabriel Borkman and Three Sisters were also produced. Other versions include Naked and Lulu for the Almeida and Thérèse Raquin for Chichester Festival Theatre.

His adaptation of Pumla Gobodo-Madikizelas's A Human Being Died That Night was produced at Hampstead Theatre in 2013 and his adaptation of Pat Barker's Regeneration was produced in Northampton and on tour in 2014.

Other opera libretti are The Little Prince (composer Rachel Portman, for Houston Grand Opera) and Man on the Moon (Jonathan Dove) for Channel 4. Books are 99 Plays, a survey of drama from Aeschylus until the present day, and Changing Stages, co-written with Richard Eyre.

Notable engagements elsewhere: Treetops and One Fine Day (Riverside Studios), The Custom of the Country and The Desert Air (RSC), Cressida (Almeida Theatre at the Albery), Rattigan's Nijinsky (Chichester), The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre) and Mrs Klein, Vincent in Brixton, The Reporter and Travelling Light (RNT).

OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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The Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase 2019


Productions
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Utah Symphony | Utah OperaThe Little Prince1/20/2024 - 1/28/2024
Tulsa OperaThe Little Prince2/15/2019 - 2/17/2019
Utah Symphony | Utah OperaThe Little Prince1/19/2019 - 1/27/2019
Opera ParallèleThe Little Prince12/7/2018 - 12/9/2018
Metropolitan OperaMarnie10/19/2018 - 11/10/2018
Opera ParallèleThe Little Prince12/1/2017 - 12/3/2017
Opera Theatre of WestonThe Little Prince1/17/2010 - 1/17/2010
San Francisco OperaThe Little Prince5/3/2008 - 5/11/2008
Tulsa OperaThe Little Prince9/9/2006 - 10/14/2006
Opera Theatre of WestonThe Little Prince1/1/2006 - 1/8/2006
New York City OperaThe Little Prince11/1/2005 - 11/19/2005
Boston Lyric OperaThe Little Prince2/1/2005 - 2/27/2005
Houston Grand OperaThe Little Prince12/1/2004 - 12/18/2004
Skylight Music TheatreThe Little Prince3/1/2004 - 3/28/2004
Houston Grand OperaThe Little Prince5/31/2003 - 6/22/2003


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