Sentence examples for libretto read from inspiring English sources

The libretto, read by a cast of eight, seemed inspired by music's secret: the silence, ever present behind the notes, allowing the mind to wander free.

At what price, the libretto reads, have you stolen "il mio bene"?

If you try to read librettos as poems or plays you will be disappointed.

"So I read the libretto and listened to the music very carefully and realised it was not unlike Mansfield Park.

Meanwhile, as far as the words go, Boyd says Paterson has come up with best English libretto he's ever read.

When Schopenhauer read the libretto of the "Ring," he wrote in the margins of the Wotan-Fricka exchange, "Wotan under the slipper".

And its plot is so elaborate and implausible it makes the libretto of "Il Trovatore" read like a first-grade primer.

And some of the dialogue is painfully puerile — but you can't blame the new production for that; it's equally painful when you read the libretto in the Library of America's just-published two-volume "American Musicals").

It may seem that way to us as well, when we read the libretto printed in the program and find the young man saying such things as "My only wish is to perish in the world of love" and "I yearn to feel this sorrow as long as I live".

When Arthur Schopenhauer read the libretto of "Die Walküre," the second installment of Wagner's "Ring" cycle, he found himself discomfited by the goings on in Act I, in which the twin siblings Siegmund and Sieglinde, separated children of the god Wotan, fall madly in love.

Gilbert finally called on Sullivan and read the libretto to him on 20 February 1875.