Sentence examples for from a libretto from inspiring English sources

A current of self-denial runs through "Caroline," from a libretto that refuses to sentimentalize its heroine to its deliberately fragmented score that avoids anthems of uplift.

Beethoven notably defied the archaizing rule; his "Fidelio," first heard in 1805, is derived from a libretto of the French Revolutionary period and unmistakably evokes the Terror of 1793-94.

Devoted to the other artistic lives that children's literature has enjoyed, the show ranges from a libretto and score for a 1730 comic opera "Robin Hood" to the film poster for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

From a Libretto Once Rejected, a Masterwork Once Rejected AARRE MERIKANTO'S "Juha," which was given a new production at the Savonlinna Festival, is an inexplicably unknown masterwork with a checkered history.

Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer from a libretto written by Eugène Scribe and.

L'ange de Nisida (The Angel of Nisida) is an opera semiseria in four acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, from a libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz.

Ernst Krenek's "Schwergewicht, oder die Ehre der Nation" ("Heavyweight, or the Pride of the Nation") is a wild social satire from 1928, with a libretto by the composer, about a prizefighter whose wife is cheating on him with her dance instructor.

On Monday night, however, the Metropolitan Opera in New York presented "The Death of Klinghoffer", a new production of an opera first staged in 1991, with a score from Mr Adams, original direction from Mr Sellars and a libretto by Alice Goodman.

Distilling a libretto from such a familiar work was not an easy task for Tchaikovsky.

Now Mozart persuaded Da Ponte to make a libretto from its sequel, The Marriage of Figaro.

Or, rather, he decided to assemble a libretto from extant material, because he realized that the subject resisted a conventional treatment.