Sentence examples for libretto which from inspiring English sources

Maw wrote his own libretto, which may have been unwise.

They're difficult musically, but this challenge pales in comparison to the libretto, which is in Chinese.

D'Indy probably erred by writing his own libretto, which is verbose and redundant.

The libretto, which Messiaen wrote himself, would have posed no problems for an audience of fourteenth-century Loire villagers.

The libretto, which Schwartz also wrote, often sounds like someone's over-clever translation of a foreign-language text.

In the original libretto, which Prokofiev wrote in collaboration with the theatre director Sergei Radlov, the lovers do not die.

"I taught Italian language at beginners and advanced levels and also a course on opera librettos which Michigan asked me to teach for singers," she said.

In his early Munich years Busch's attempt to write libretti, which are almost forgotten today, were unsuccessful.

Unlike most opera composers, who generally left the task of writing the libretto (the text and lyrics) to others, Wagner wrote his own libretti, which he referred to as "poems".

Meyerbeer's large choral 'tableaux' also made a major contribution to the overall dramatic effect; the composer particularly sought opportunities to write such large-scale crowd scenes, and preferred libretti which offered such possibilities.

… Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.