Sentence examples for adapted the libretto from inspiring English sources

The composer adapted the libretto from recorded interviews with veterans.

For this production, Kushner adapted the libretto, and the sets were based on Sendak designs.

Janacek adapted the libretto from a play by Karel Capek that he saw shortly after its premiere in 1922.

(Ligeti adapted the libretto with Michael Meschke, founder of the Marionette Theater of Stockholm, from a play by the Belgian absurdist Michel de Ghelderode).

Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, adapted the libretto from Shakespeare's play, and few productions of that popular work convey its wistful whimsy and grim subtext as well as Britten's operatic setting.

Gilbert adapted the libretto for Sullivan.

In adapting the libretto from Mr. Seth's text, Mr. Cummings has maintained the rhythmic verve of his source while gently pruning its thickets of topical chattiness for greater dramatic flow.

It is really a Nietzschean refashioning of Euripides's Bacchae (albeit set in 12th- century Sicily), and Szymanowski himself adapted the ending of the libretto to portray a man who has first recognised and then overcome the dangerous, yet enriching, Dionysian forces within.

It is adapted as the libretto for Ezra Laderman's music in the oratorio Brotherly Love, premiered by the Philadelphia Singers in March 2000.

Apostolo Zeno adapted the story into a libretto for the composer Antonio Pollarolo.

Verdi believed so strongly in the music to "Stiffelio" that he adapted the score to a new libretto, turning the minister into a medieval crusader.