Charles Hart

Charles Hart is a British lyricist and librettist. He was born in London and educated in Maidenhead and Cambridge. For Andrew Lloyd Webber he wrote the lyrics of “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Aspects of Love”, and for Howard Goodall those of “Bend It Like Beckham”; for Jonathan Dove he wrote the libretto of the opera “Marx in London”. He has received two Ivor Novello Awards and has been nominated twice for a Tony Award and once for an Academy Award. On a gala recording by Doc Heilein and Friends, Sarah Bouwers and David E. Moore sing “All I Ask of You” from “The Phantom of the Opera”, whose lyrics he wrote with Richard Stilgoe to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.