Sentence examples for libretto with from inspiring English sources
He wrote the libretto with Michael Meschke.
In "The Nose" Shostakovich, who fashioned the libretto with three other writers, does the opposite.
Mr. Levi turned this into a singable libretto, with some humorous touches in the early moments.
Strauss responded to this deeply philosophical libretto with a complex, lushly colored and opulently lyrical score.
Dusapin co-wrote the libretto with the Berlin-based playwright Beate Haeckl.
The lyrics, by Arnold Weinstein who wrote the libretto with Mr. Miller, are also dramatically site-specific.
While "The Rainmaker" made Mr. Nash rich, he continued to turn out screenplays, teleplays and librettos with remarkable consistency.
Gluck's co-opting of the "Armide" text not quite a century after Lully, with only limited changes, set off a rage for retrofitting Quinault's librettos with new music.
The teacher, Mary Jo Lassen, tells students about the history of the form, helps them read and study Italian and French librettos with the help of translations, and has them memorize and sing transliterated arias.
In addition, Gilbert imbued his libretti with "topsy-turvy" situations in which the social order was turned upside down.
He collaborated on plays with Christopher Isherwood and on opera libretti with Chester Kallman, and worked with a group of artists and filmmakers on documentary films in the 1930s and with the New York Pro Musica early music group in the 1950s and 1960s.
