Sentence examples for draft of a libretto from inspiring English sources

By Emerson Beauchamp The New Yorker, July 17 , 1965P. 68 (A Draft of a Libretto for Still Another Meaningful Musical by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley).

Wagner took 26 years from writing the first draft of a libretto in 1848 until he completed Götterdämmerung in 1874.

After he had a completed a first draft of the libretto for "Doubt," Mr. Shanley went to see Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro" at the Metropolitan Opera.

Mr. Cesar lost everything but the stale clothes on his back, including his poetry, the books he collected on history and European royalty, and the first draft of his libretto for a political opera.

Wagner wrote a first draft of the libretto in 1845, and he had resolved to develop it during a visit he had made to Venice with the Wesendoncks in 1860, where he was inspired by Titian's painting The Assumption of the Virgin.

In one draft of the libretto, she says, "If mindless destruction is smashing its way through the world, wild and defiant, who but you, violent Wotan, can bear the blame for the calamity?

The poems slowly coalesced into a jigsaw of a libretto.

The inclusion of a libretto alone is a major advantage.

Berlioz's friends intrigued to procure the assignment of a libretto.

Of course it involves a tradeoff: vocal lines were carefully fitted by composers to the specific language of a libretto.

But it takes major meddling with the text of a libretto to produce a performing version in a different language.