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

The Texas company’s first commissioned opera, with a score by Jorge Sosa and a libretto by John de los Santos, is a Mexican-infused take on a fairy tale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi’s libretto, based on a 1673 tragedy by Jean Racine, is political and personal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Felice Romani’s libretto also has an unusual—rather meta—construction: It includes a poet who is trying to write an opera buffa and narrates the events, a nod to Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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

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

This two-volume boxed set contains the complete libretti of such Golden Age favorites as "Oklahoma!,"

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2014

From thence to the end of 1716 he produced nineteen Cantatas and collaborated with a writer whose libretti at length gave him a satisfactory literary medium.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel

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

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

He made attempts at operatic composition, producing a vast amount of beautiful music, but always to indifferent librettos, so that none of his music was publicly performed.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews