libretto

George Brant’s libretto has a torn-from-the-headlines immediacy: It was inspired by a 2022 kidnapping of Ukrainian children from a summer camp in Crimea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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 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

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

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

Both operas boast Alice Goodman libretti that promise to become lasting works of literature.

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

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

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

Many translations are available in collections of opera libretti, but most English translations edit out the variant content or alter the emphasis.

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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

Both women wrote the librettos for the stage adaptations of their respective films too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 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

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

His abilities as a writer are very clearly shown in the librettos to his works.

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