Sentence examples for a libretto based on from inspiring English sources

"Natasha" is an electro-pop opera with a libretto based on a portion of the novel "War and Peace".

A book based on a libretto based on a book might be a tricky sell to most jaded marketing managers, but Unbound didn't mind.

History, however, is liberally blended with fantasy in the work, which has a libretto based on "Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schillerr's 1800 play about a fictitious meeting between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.

"Abstract Opera No. 1", with music by Boris Blacher and a libretto based on an idea (by composer Werner Egk), "Hin und Zuruck" ("There and Back"), a sketch by Hindemith.

The American choreographer Mark Morris gained international fame with his ballet "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato," set to music by Handel with a libretto based on poems by John Milton.

A proposal that Boito should write a libretto based on Shakespeare's Othello attracted the old composer, and, as a sort of test, the now-prominent man of letters and composer of the opera Mefistofele agreed to revise the unsatisfactory libretto of Simon Boccanegra.

Some revivals were unconventional: one German production used a rewritten libretto based on a revised storyline in which Leila, transformed into a defiant Carmen-like heroine, commits suicide at the end of the final scene.

A bit of background: In 1700 a group of English nobles, intending to promote native-born opera, offered a prize to the best setting of a William Congreve libretto based on the mythic tale of the shepherd Paris, called on to judge the worthiest among the goddesses Athena, Juno and Venus.

He composed it in 1732, to an anonymous libretto based on Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso".

Zandonai, once considered destined to be the next Puccini, wrote his own libretto based on a play by Gabriele d'Annunzio that added a third lustful Malatesta brother and invented a plot twist by which Francesca was tricked into believing that the dashing Paolo was her intended husband.

Ronald Duncan's libretto, based on a play by André Obey, curiously drenches the pagan story with Christian moralizing, but this just enhances the compelling strangeness of the work.