Sentence examples for libretto for from inspiring English sources

None of this is in the libretto, for good reason.

In 1958 Menotti wrote the libretto for Barber's opera Vanessa.

She's also written a libretto for a chamber opera.

He wrote the libretto for an opera about plastic surgery, which was performed in 2009.

(The same author also provided the libretto for Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk").

Tate also wrote the libretto for Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas (c. 1689).

Halévy and Meilhac also wrote the libretto for Georges Bizet's opera Carmen (1875).

And Ms. McFall's libretto, for all its poetic beauties, is laden down with metaphor and symbolism.

(The libretto for Handel's Messiah may represent the purest form of this Christian overreading).

They jointly wrote the libretto for Philippe Boesmans's chamber opera Julie, based on Strindberg's play.

Woyzeck served as the libretto for Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck (1925).