libretto
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Kevin Day wrote the music and Tifara Brown the libretto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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
The libretto is cumbersome although full of dramatic promise and surprise and with a comic episode that prefigures “Falstaff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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
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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
Those libretti are striking assemblages from documentary and literary sources by Sellars that Adams’ music brings to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
“I spent a great deal of my time during my college career in creative writing, so the idea of writing my own libretti seemed no stretch at all for me.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 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
Madame Gay wrote several comedies and opera libretti which met with considerable success.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 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
So she taught herself to write English librettos by studying Wagner and contemporary artists like poet Alice Goodman and composer Kaija Saariaho.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
For Schumacher, the push was toward narrative structure; he now writes librettos for all his ballets.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
The librettos of other days were, to say the least, ridiculous.
From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by Cooke, James Francis
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