libretto

It seemed like a charmed project: an opera by Igor Stravinsky with a libretto by W.H.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The libretto, by the composer and Manuelle Mureddu, efficiently condenses the novel using a chorus as both narrator and the village community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The opera was composed by Still with a libretto from the Missouri-born poet, playwright, novelist and social activist Langston Hughes, who connected Haiti’s struggle for freedom to his home country’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Pushkin’s text eventually became the libretto that Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov employed in his opera of the same name.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

What’s more, he wrote the libretto as well as the music, and drew up the specifications of the purpose- built theatre at Bayreuth in which it was to be performed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Zigman was impressed by “Silent Night,” the 2011 opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, and added Campbell, a veteran of roughly 40 libretti.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

Restlessness defined his career: “I write poetry, essays, opera libretti, even scientific articles. But I am not a specialist,” he explained to the Irish Times in 2003.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022

This two-volume boxed set contains the complete libretti of such Golden Age favorites as "Oklahoma!,"

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2014

He has collaborated on two libretti, an operatic sideline resulting from a misapprehension.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013

But it points to a certain weakness as a musician that Gluck could not be inspired except by the more thrilling portions of his libretti.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 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

His librettos were like subtweets; that’s why, Wagner believed, the critic Eduard Hanslick cooled on him after a reading of the text for “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” a cri de coeur against artistic gatekeeping.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2022

That he has also literary talent of a high order is evinced by his contributions to periodical literature and the librettos of his last two works,—“The Bridal of Triermain” and “Nordisa.”

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton