Sentence examples for libretto itself from inspiring English sources

There will be frequent changes of scene and of atmosphere, just as the libretto itself presupposes, but which one rarely sees in productions of the work today.

As A.D.P. Briggs has pointed out, both Mérimée's Carmen (1845), the acknowledged source for the libretto of Bizet's opera, and the opera libretto itself (1875), owe much to Pushkin's poem, which has always gone unacknowledged.

Some of the problems were due to the libretto itself, for Michael John LaChiusa's notion of buffa character sketches is to have Girl's grotesque siblings all shout "Shut up!" at one another and act like gibbering cartoon characters from a bourgeois boot camp: one drinks too much, one eats too much, one sings too much, and they all grovel for money.

Dumping the music and retaining only the essentials of the libretto (itself based on an Henri Murger story), the team has cobbled together a rock opera for the Paradise Opera company, which opened its production of "The Bohemian" on Friday evening at the Cooper Square Theater, 50 West Seventh Street.

In a preface published with the libretto, Torcigliani refers to "the sweetness of the music of the never-enough praised Monteverde", but the libretto itself provides no specific guides to the music's nature.

"The text of his speech," as Peter Sellars wrote with strange prescience in his updated plot synopsis of an 18th century libretto, "concerns itself at length with the palm trees, which he clearly admires.

It may not reinterpret ancient Hindu texts, contain lengthy, ponderous solos, or come with a lyric sheet that calls itself a libretto, but Skinner's follow-up to Original Pirate Material, his 2002 debut as the Streets, is undoubtedly a concept album.

Toshiba itself has the libretto W100 in its line-up, a double-screen mini notebook tailor-made for usage as an e-reader.

Then, after the production had shifted to Houston, came the writing of the libretto and finally the composing of the music itself.

The piece is loosely based on a story by 19th-century French poet Jules Laforgue, itself a transformation of Wagner's Lohengrin libretto.

Hirda was inspired by the stories of the Shetland Islands, and the libretto makes much use of Shetland dialect: the title itself means chaos or confusion.