Mr. Hwang's libretto uses a flashback structure to tell the story.
It offers a more or less literal danced depiction of the opera's libretto, using the 1871 German version based on Euripides's "Iphigenia in Tauris".
This technically dazzling production, based on a Gertrude Stein libretto, uses simulcast video monitors and voice-layering synthesizers to spin everything that is said and done into an orbit of multiple effects.
I know you feel uncomfortable, but it's not going to be set in stone.' " For Mr. Cuomo it was a very different experience from his previous opera, "Arjuna's Dilemma," for which he wrote the libretto using texts from the Bhagavad Gita.
Arrigo Boito's libretto uses Italian with individual wit and flair.
Tippett, who wrote the libretto himself, used Handel's "Messiah" as the model for this three-part oratorio.
The music is extraordinary - I know every note of it by heart, but the libretto Beethoven used is weak, because of its conventionality.
For the libretto he uses just a part of Tolstoy's novel.
His first libretto to use that version was called Siegfrieds Tod ("The Death of Siegfried"), which became the basis of Götterdämmerung.
Acts of Passion The Brooklyn Philharmonic opens its new season at 7 30 tomorrow night with the New York premiere of a music, dance and vocal piece in Spanish and Aramaic with an English libretto and using authentic Latin American instruments like berimbau, tres and bata drums.
