A snippet of revised recit. Carys Rees-Baker, soprano, and Sarah Lawless, mezzo. This post in the final entry in a series of posts about adapting the libretto of Alcina for a modern audience and performers with the help of ChatGPT. We are now in the implementation phase of the Alcina libretto.Like any new text, the act of singing a line—or hearing it land in the room—often dictates a rewrite. A line comes up in rehearsal, a student raises an eyebrow, and I end up back here

This is the fourth entry in a series on adapting Handel's Alcina for modern singers using ChatGPT at Oakland University . There’s a strange kind of alchemy to adapting a Baroque libretto for the modern stage. In our Alcina project—a college-opera re-imagined inside an influencer mansion where social media magic replaces sorcery—every translation choice becomes a philosophical one. When this process began, the goal wasn’t just to modernize Handel’s Alcina ; it was to rebuild

In this third installment of my ongoing series about AI-assisted adaptation of Handel's Alcina , we dive into one of the project’s most...

This is Part II in a blog series about using AI to create a complete libretto rewrite—from concept to organization to libretto. Where I...

This is Part I in a blog series about using AI to create a complete libretto rewrite—from concept to organization to libretto. What...