Sentence examples for draft of the libretto from inspiring English sources

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.

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?

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.

Of course, my and Melanie's ideas about the piece and the kind of story we wanted to tell have matured, but after many hours of conversation, thousands of emails, invaluable workshops and draft after draft after redraft of the libretto, I'm confident that we have achieved what we set out to from the very early stages of development.

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

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).

Probably 50 percent of the libretto is taken directly from the book.

A cursory reading of the libretto gives rise to yet another urgent question.

Only when the performance is under way does the beauty of the libretto snap into focus.

But far too much can be made of the inadequacies of the libretto.