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Mr. Vavrek’s elegant libretto, which deftly repurposes Mr. Saunders’s evocative period language, narrows that huge cast of characters to a handful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

With its harmonically lush score and emotionally raw libretto, “The Mothers of Kherson,” though frequently absorbing, is no “Guernica” in sound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi’s libretto, based on a 1673 tragedy by Jean Racine, is political and personal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Its wordy libretto, faithfully adapted by Philip Littell from the Tennessee Williams play, is a bit too long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

If Ethan were here, he’d have the whole libretto written by the time we stepped out of the car.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Mr. Teachout also wrote the libretti to three operas by composer Paul Moravec and contributed liner notes to dozens of recordings.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022

In social media postings, New York composer Daniel Roumain said Sunday he was commissioned to write one of four libretti for a “Greenwood Overcomes” concert scheduled for a May 1 performance by the Tulsa Opera.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2021

The store has 20 staff members, most of them part time, and stocks more than 20,000 titles, including plays in translation and musical libretti from popular Broadway plays.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2018

But while Vavrek’s libretti have powered a string of gritty operas, the Yale-trained Mazzolli is most identified with downtown chamber music, having written works for Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird and other groups.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2016

It is difficult to give particulars, but would be improper to omit all mention, of such dramatic or quasi-dramatic work as the libretti of operas, farces for performance at fairs and the like.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

That certainly appealed to Hammerstein, he said, whose librettos tended to have political aspects to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

Italian soprano Carmela Remigio told the Corriere della Sera newspaper that it was thanks to the opera and its librettos that Italian language was still known in the world.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

In his subsequent collaborations with director Peter Sellars — from “Doctor Atomic” through “Girls” — the librettos were compiled entirely from “found texts” such as documents, diaries, speeches and poems.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

So when scholars got serious about “Don Carlos” a century later, they could reconstruct that cut music from handwritten orchestra parts, draft librettos, rehearsal reports and the like.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

But if we take his own writings as evidences of what he meant to do, then his librettos must necessarily be unsatisfactory.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones