Sentence examples for into a libretto from inspiring English sources
Apostolo Zeno adapted the story into a libretto for the composer Antonio Pollarolo.
He translated Georges Schehadé's play The Story of Vasco from the original French and shaped it into a libretto.
Hwang later adapted The Sound of a Voice into a libretto for an opera collaboration (2003) with American composer Philip Glass.
McClatchy describes the idea of distilling Nineteen Eighty-Four into a libretto as "a very dangerous prospect, when the source material is very familiar".
By contrast, in Britten's chamber opera, shaped into a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, these phantoms are clothed with words and raised to life through music.
For Mr. Kahane, allowing the 1930s to speak for itself involved reading the guides and transcribing intriguing passages into a massive document, which he condensed and edited into a libretto.
The poems slowly coalesced into a jigsaw of a libretto.
By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto (or "poem", as Wagner liked to call his libretti).
Mr. Levi turned this into a singable libretto, with some humorous touches in the early moments.
In many great operas composers have had to whittle down an epic literary work into a suitable libretto.
He commissioned the world's most glamorous and effective stage director, Franco Zeffirelli, to direct and design the production -- and serve as the man to fashion Shakespeare's words into a viable libretto.
