Sentence examples for its libretto from inspiring English sources

Because of the experimental nature of the ballet, its libretto appeared concurrently; it was the first formal libretto published for a dance drama.

Its libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire also has good pedigree, inspired as it was by Voltaire's libretto "Samson" for Rameau, which the latter started work on but abandoned.

Like "Niobe," it has a plot that is drawn from Ovid, but its libretto, by Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Hughes, is a less complicated tale of two lovers (the title characters) and a jealous interloper, Polyphemus.

The strangest twist in the history of "La Rondine" may be the fate of its libretto.

Its libretto is by Mr. M?uez's student Marcela Fuentes-Berain.

"Akhnaten" (1983), his opera about that monotheistic Egyptian pharaoh, included ancient pyramid texts in its libretto.

On a similar tip, Stephen Crowe, who the media has called "the future of new opera, has recently produced gems such as a cowboy opera featuring electronic instruments and costumed pterodactyls, and another piece called " James Joyce Song Cycle," which draws its lyrics from the dirty sex-letters Joyce sent his wife lampooning opera's tendency to reach for blood-and-thunder drama in its librettos.

To add to the humor of the frequently scatological occasion, Hedwig and band (Justin Craig as Skszp, Matt Duncan as Jacek, Tim Mislock as Krzyzhtoff, Peter Yanowitz as Schlatko) are appearing on the night after the (fictional) tuner Hurt Locker with its Tony Kushner-Brandon Nipp libretto called it quits following a single performance.

Is Verdi's "Trovatore" dated by its improbable libretto?

The only thing ugly about the opera is its overwritten libretto.

Its English libretto was written by DuBose Heyward (with lyrics by Heyward and Ira Gershwin), based on Heyward's novel Porgy (1925).