Sentence examples for libretto from from inspiring English sources

The composer adapted the libretto from recorded interviews with veterans.

Still, Prokofiev forged ahead, creating his own libretto from stretches of Dostoyevskian dialogue.

The libretto is a German translation of an Italian libretto from 1691.

Mr. Zuidam adapted his libretto from original Spanish, Latin and medieval texts.

Distilling a libretto from such a familiar work was not an easy task for Tchaikovsky.

Now Mozart persuaded Da Ponte to make a libretto from its sequel, The Marriage of Figaro.

There are, in general, three ways that opera buffs typically encounter English versions of European-language librettos from earlier eras, which were mostly written in verse.

It was during this same period, however, that directors began the practice of rewriting Verdi's librettos from scratch, and the revival entered a state of crisis from which it has yet to emerge.

She wrote to Arnold Bennett, Bernard Shaw, and John Galsworthy for librettos from which her husband might compose an opera, and she invited Igor Stravinsky to the Riviera to instruct her husband in harmony and composition.

He adapted librettos from Shaw's texts and combined them into an evening of one-act operas, "Shaw Sings!" The adventurous Encompass New Opera Theater presented the New York premiere of "Shaw Sings!" on Thursday night at Symphony Space.

All but the last two of these had libretti by Gaetano Rossi, whom Meyerbeer continued to support until the latter's death in 1855, although not commissioning any further libretti from him after Il crociato in Egitto (1824).