Sentence examples for libretto in a from inspiring English sources

To a story he devised with the playwright Randy Weiner, Mr. Pinsky set his libretto in a time when robots rule the earth.

The libretto, in a punchy translation and adaptation by Mr. Wadsworth, offers some insight into the opera's themes, but it is, of course, Handel's graciously flowing and endlessly inventive music that provides the richest context for reflection.

Here Mr. Golijov draws from the same well of Spanish folk music and flamenco as Falla and Albéniz, but he also takes into account the decades Xirgu spent in Latin America: the choral writing has a decidedly Latin tinge, and there's a touch of magical realism in the libretto, in which a dying Margarita, her student Nuria and the ghost of García Lorca interact.

Even though the work offers no narrative, Clark never loses sight of the original libretto, in which a peasant bride is led to her wedding as though to a death sentence.

At my age, what is life but a recitativo oscuro, with its shadowy intimations, musical aphorisms, librettos in a sigh.

At my age, what is lifebut a recitativo oscuro, with its shadowy intimations,musical aphorisms, librettos in a sigh.Caught between willful tempestuousness& bewildering geometries, we dread & long for those moments of cruel lucidity that fix us as we are Mallarmé's       swanfrozen in ice..

Before his arrival, the Lakers were a libretto in need of a score.

Furthermore, Brewster originally wrote the libretto in French, with an eye toward a Monte Carlo production, which never came about; Smyth later translated it into creaky English.

With a libretto in Portuguese by the writer Lucia Costa Gomes -- a cut-and-paste assemblage of philosophical ruminations, travel logs and newspaper headlines -- the opera purports to examine the exploits of Vasco da Gama and other late 15th-century Portuguese navigators, though the larger subjects of discovery, exploration and culture shock are the real focus.

This uncertainty also led Puccini repeatedly to dramatic missteps -- from the early "Manon Lescaut" (where his meddling with the libretto resulted in a title character who is a hash of unrelated impulses) all the way to "Turandot" (how can we pay serious heed to her final love duet with Calaf when they both have callously discounted Liù's death by torture just before?).

On Tuesday night at the Felsenreitschule, the Salzburg Festival presented the world premiere of "L'Amour de Loin," a haunting and resonant work, with a libretto in French by the Lebanese-born novelist and essayist Amin Maalouf, who, like Ms. Saariaho, lives in France.