libretto
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Gian Carlo Menotti’s gothic libretto felt weirder than usual.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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
Versions of this Stravinsky classic, with its libretto based on Russian fairytales, have come and gone for more than a century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
In 2016, the company gave the premiere of Bright Sheng’s “Dream of the Red Chamber,” which is, like “Monkey,” based on a classic Chinese novel and has a libretto by Hwang.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
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
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