Sentence examples for libretto that from inspiring English sources

Frustrated, Zemlinsky searched for a libretto that would capture the public's attention.

Mr. Gréaud commissioned an original opera score and libretto that were recorded by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Accordingly, they came up with a libretto that cast Printemps's life in terms of her love affair with the public.

A few stray plot strands and a quizzical ending aside, it's a deft libretto that balances zany double-entendres with plainspoken poetry, mocking exaggeration with empathetic realism.

A current of self-denial runs through "Caroline," from a libretto that refuses to sentimentalize its heroine to its deliberately fragmented score that avoids anthems of uplift.

The orchestra sometimes overwhelmed the singers — Tatiana Serjan, as Susanna, and Brigitte Pinter, as Clementia — but given the quality of the libretto, that was no tragedy.

When I first wrote librettos, that influenced the way I wrote poems.

Green, one of the last great figures of Broadway's Golden Age, composed lyrics and musical librettos that sang and danced him into the nation's dream life.

While they appealed to the common people by the inclusion of love intrigues that were not required to reflect historical facts, historical librettos that portrayed magnanimous rulers flattered the aristocracy on whom many opera centres were financially dependent.

Sellars's approach has displeased many music critics, who prefer the dense, hypnotic librettos that Alice Goodman wrote for Adams's first two operas, "Nixon in China" and "The Death of Klinghoffer".

Although titling systems have largely replaced translations in many large houses in recent years, one still frequently encounters the librettos that the Martins rendered in English during their 40-year collaboration.