Sentence examples for libretto date from inspiring English sources

The score, by Dmitri Shostakovich, and the libretto date from 1935.

A devoted opera buff, Mrs. Moed regularly attended the Metropolitan Opera with librettos dating from her childhood.

The Music Library has just completed a multi-year project to catalog two major collections of rare Italian opera libretti: the Taddei Collection consisting of 4,403 libretti dating from 1600 to 1953, and the Sicilian Libretto Collection containing about 930 libretti dating from 1650 to 1900.

(The breasts of the title are those of the character Therese; they float away when she transforms into a male character, Tiresias). L'enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Enchantments), with a libretto by Colette, dates to World War I and the years following.

Lacking a freshly composed libretto, he settled for one dating from 1818, when Rossinian comic opera was at its height.

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

But it was enough for Balanchine to choreograph his own version in the spirit of the Tchaikovsky score and libretto that he knew from the original "Nutcracker" dating from 1892 in St . Petersburgbefore he left Russia.

While Amazon does have the Libretto W105 available for pre-order, there is no actual release date listed as of press time.

Other biographers (such as Lucy Beckett) believe that this is not true, as the original drafts of the story date back to 1857 and Wagner had completed the libretto for Parsifal by 1877; but he displayed no significant interest in Gobineau until 1880.

However, Wagner had completed the libretto for Parsifal by 1877, and the original drafts of the story date back to 1857.

Although not a grand opera, the new libretto provided Sullivan with the opportunity to write his most ambitious score to date.