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

In Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto, the enraged Menelaus tries to kill his errant wife Helena on their journey home from Troy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

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

For about two years after she graduated from Hunter College, Marianne Mantell worked as a freelancer for record companies, writing liner notes and translating opera libretti.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

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

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

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013

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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He would grab a bunch of different librettos and “Wicked” was one of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

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

The theatrical genius of Shakespeare often nests a play within the play, and Verdi captures this brilliantly in “Otello” and “Falstaff,” both with librettos by Arrigo Boito.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021

Under James I, with the great architect Inigo Jones to devise the machines and setting, and with Ben Jonson to write the librettos, one of these masques was a magnificent affair.

From How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest by Rudyard Kipling