Ms. Yankowitz based her libretto on interviews with Ms. Mukhtar.
From the strong supporting cast Mr. Lehnhoff drew portrayals that captured the black comic qualities of the play by Karel Capek that Janacek based his libretto on.
Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the imperial theaters, based his libretto on E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," as retold by Alexandre Dumas père.
Mr. Little completed "Soldier Songs" in 2006, basing its libretto on interviews he conducted with family members and schoolmates who served in World War II, Vietnam, the gulf wars and Afghanistan.
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.
Don Giovanni was Mozart's second opera based on a libretto by Da Ponte, who used as his model a libretto by Giovanni Bertati, set by Giuseppe Gazzaniga for Venice earlier in 1787.
Gilbert based the libretto of Trial by Jury on an operetta parody that he had written in 1868.
It is based on a libretto by the Lebanese novelist Amin Maalouf, who, like the composer, is a longtime Paris resident.
"The Source," based on a libretto by Mark Doten, is a mesmerizing and disquieting collage of vocal, instrumental, and recorded sounds.
Based on a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi (who later became Pope Clement IX), the opera deals with the final days of St. Alexis, who abandoned his patrician household in pursuit of spiritual truths.
