Sentence examples for a libretto from from inspiring English sources

Distilling a libretto from such a familiar work was not an easy task for Tchaikovsky.

Now Mozart persuaded Da Ponte to make a libretto from its sequel, The Marriage of Figaro.

Or, rather, he decided to assemble a libretto from extant material, because he realized that the subject resisted a conventional treatment.

The result was his last opera, Oberon, all too rarely performed because Kemble saddled Weber with a stinker of a libretto from his illiterate stage-manager, JR Planché.

By generating a libretto from interviews and synchronizing them with music, Mr. Reich discovered a way to bypass the theatricality and artifice he so disliked.

Last night brought a far more bitter and less romantic kind of art, a new opera taken from Sister Helen Prejean's book about a Louisiana execution, with music by Jake Heggie and a libretto from Terrence McNally.

She moved to England, took younger artists into her home, and wrote book after book: novels, science fiction, memoirs, essays, poems, a libretto for an opera adapted from her book "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8," with music by Philip Glass.

The performance had an eerily calm tension, a quality essential to this story of buried yearnings and guarded secrets in a vaguely medieval setting, with a libretto adapted from the play by the Belgian symbolist author Maurice Maeterlinck.

Just as the final basso profundo chants of "Koyaanisqatsi" are fading away, the Metropolitan Opera will revive its Phelim McDermott production of Mr. Glass's second opera, "Satyagraha" (1980), a metaphorical telling of Gandhi's early life and the development of his nonviolent approach to political protest with a libretto drawn from the Bhagavad Gita (opens Nov. 4).

With a libretto assembled from more than two dozen lighter-waving rock anthems of the Reagan era, from Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive" to Night Ranger's "Sister Christian," the production arrives on Broadway with a lot of baggage, but also a charmed history.

Yet there is a high camp element to the opera itself, which has a libretto adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde, who saw the absurd humor in the biblical tale and posed as a Salome in drag for a famous photograph.