Phillip Glass has written numerous words.
=== 19972004: Symphonies, opera, and concertos ===In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Glass's lyrical and romantic styles peaked with a variety of projects: operas, theatre and film scores (Martin Scorsese's Kundun, 1997, Godfrey Reggio's Naqoyqatsi, 2002, and Stephen Daldry's The Hours, 2002), a series of five concerts, and three symphonies centered on orchestra-singer and orchestra-chorus interplay
Glass's prolific output in the 1990s continued to include operas with an opera triptych (19911996), which the composer described as an "homage" to writer and film director Jean Cocteau, based on his prose and cinematic work: Orphe (1950), La Belle et la Bte (1946), and the novel Les Enfants terribles (1929, later made into a film by Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950)

