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He takes the story straight — straighter, I think, than any libretto he has worked with before.
There isn't any libretto to speak of, which makes Byrnes's ability to convey story through song all the more striking.
Ultimately, Kirstein had to choose between this liberating kind of work, which involved him in every creative aspect of production, and the job of chasing funds for the man who, on his return to ballet, in 1941, rapidly choreographed — without any libretto, to music by Tchaikovsky and Bach, and ceding no authority whatever — "Ballet Imperial" and "Concerto Barocco".
As early as October 1862, well before the arrival of any libretto or plot sketch, Smetana had noted down 16 bars which later became the theme of The Bartered Bride's opening chorus.
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What followed was the extended process of adjustment and rewriting essential to any opera libretto, once it reaches the composer.
As dramatised in the film Topsy-Turvy, the author and composer were at an impasse until 8 May 1884, when Gilbert dropped the lozenge idea and agreed to provide a libretto without any supernatural elements.
A certain strident, acrid quality that mingles with the gorgeousness of the Turandot music gives just the right tone to the drama, at any rate as arranged into a libretto by G Adami and R Simoni.
Not that the audience members' (very mixed) response, when asked for their verdict, has any effect: the libretto, which Ms. Sankaram wrote with the show's director, Rob Reese, is not interactive.
In any case, the libretto was "published and circulated" in London in mid-December.
Though Mr. Garfein was himself a composer, he agreed to write a libretto for Mr. Aldridge if he could also direct any production that resulted.
With a libretto by Romulus Linney.
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