Sentence examples for libretto describes from inspiring English sources

(The 1841 libretto describes him as clasping it).

The libretto describes the opened doors, significantly, as wounds.

Paul Griffiths's libretto describes, in knotty, jokey, Samuel Beckett-like style, the aftermath of a highway accident.

Justice then appears in the shape of Don Fernando, the King's Minister, as Beethoven's libretto describes him.

But in this version, Lucia — that supremely expressive Romantic character, the one who weeps, swoons, trembles and is often, as the libretto describes, simply "beside herself with misery and fear" in a work dominated by passions and blood — is so internal that the audience perceives her only as indifferent and detached.

Buttercup, usually plump and at the upper end of middle age — the libretto describes her that way — was played as a svelte, red-haired vamp by the mezzo-soprano Vanessa Cariddi, who sang the role with an appealing combination of warmth and comic subtlety.

Working with Amanda Holden's libretto, which he describes as a "wonderful" distillation and reimagination of Carey's book into three compact acts, the piece was ready to be given to the singers in late 2008.

Gammond describes the libretto as "almost worthy of [W.S.] Gilbert", and Offenbach's score as "certainly his best so far".

In the libretto Don Alfonso is described as an old philosopher.

The libretto was variously described as "one of the worst in the 350-year history of opera" and "a complex network of verbal symbolism", and the music as "intoxicating beauty" with "passages of superbly conceived orchestral writing".

The writer Louis Gallet, who later would provide several librettos for Bizet, described the composer on this occasion as "a little dazed... a forest of thick curly hair above a round, still rather childish face, enlivened by the quick brown eyes..."....