MUSIC

Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, whose “M. Butterfly” was named best Broadway play last season, will write the libretto for Philip Glass’ next opera, “The Voyage.” But “The Voyage” is not the first work the pair has completed together; they also worked on “1,000 Airplanes on the Roof,” a science-fiction monodrama that opened in Los Angeles on Oct. 31 and is scheduled for New York next month. Although “The Voyage” will be Hwang’s first opera libretto, he has a strong musical background as an orchestral and jazz violinist. “The act of putting together a musical piece--sustaining an audience’s interest and dealing with the peaks and valleys--is very similar to putting together a play,” Hwang said. “The Voyage” will premiere in October, 1992, at the Metropolitan Opera to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ first voyage to America.