"I taught Italian language at beginners and advanced levels and also a course on opera librettos which Michigan asked me to teach for singers," she said.
Of course in translating an opera libretto into another language, the idiomatic mingling of the verbal and vocal sounds that the composer created is lost.
That line was in the libretto.
Of course with such a well-known Italian libretto you have to make some adjustments.
The libretto of Die Zauberflöte, of course, is not by Mozart, but by Schikaneder, written in 1791.
Among the later operas that Hitler didn't listen to was, of course, Strauss's pacifist Friedenstag (1936), with a libretto essentially by the Jewish Stefan Zweig who, despite Strauss's naive wish to credit him, used the complaisant Josef Gregor as a beard for the project.
Yes, of course Fosse directed the original production and contributed to the libretto.
With the exception of the two Simons (Rattle, and myself, Halsey, the choir director), the cast and the productions are completely different, as of course is the language – Jonathan Dove has set Alasdair Middleton's English libretto in both German and French.
Of course, they're not the first to try it; Toshiba's Libretto W100 is already out there, but dual 7-inch displays aren't the same as a full-size laptop like this.
Eliot's remark, of course, leaves a lot unsaid, including that his play was practically an opera libretto waiting to be set to music.
