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The libretto has countless lines that cannot be printed in a family newspaper or Web site.
The 1854 Wagner libretto has ornate language like "the soft zephyrs' breeze".
"These days a libretto has to be intrinsically interesting," McEwan told the Telegraph.
Hans-Ulrich Treichel's libretto has been translated into robust, singable English by Amanda Holden.
Elsewhere the libretto has an otherworldly quality, invoking "red moon, grey mists".
While the story is merely the excuse for a diverting courtly masque, the libretto has wit and charm, and Eccles treats it with generous care.
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The libretto had to be tinkered with to appease Viennese and Italian censors.
If only the libretto had undergone a radical rewrite before the final version went to press.
In 1919, after the libretto had been rejected by Sibelius, Ackte offered it to the 26-year-old Merikanto.
Erik Johns's libretto had undercurrents of social protest: the community becomes irrationally suspicious of two strangers in its midst, enacting in microcosm the paranoias of McCarthyite America.
While the libretto had been preserved at a Milan library, the opera's score had disappeared over the centuries and was recently reconstructed by Ondrej Macek, a Czech composer who specializes in Baroque music.
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