libretto

The libretto gave Kallman “a purpose he otherwise lacked,” transforming him from “an apparently worthless appendage, in the opinion of others,” to “a creative partner.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

In Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto, a phantom of Helen returns to Troy after the war while the real Helen is whisked away to safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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 offending piece was Theodora, a setting of a libretto by his friend Thomas Morell, which itself was based on an account of the early Christian martyr by Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

He later wrote the libretto to “Emmeline,” from a novel by Judith Rossner, for composer Tobias Picker, and translated libretti by Mozart and Bizet.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 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

In addition to poetry, she has written essays, criticism and libretti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2016

So far as they can be identified—the attempt is somewhat speculative—Weiss provided Bach with at least thirty-three libretti.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel

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

Mr. Harnick also became an accomplished opera translator, providing English librettos for classical works like Lehar’s “The Merry Widow,” Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” and Bizet’s “Carmen.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

His first two — “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer” — had librettos by poet Alice Goodman that featured long speeches and meditations.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 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