To see how libretto works, you should see and hear as much repertoire as you can.
The simplicity of the set (designed by Robert Israel) and the libretto pulls you in toward Mr. Glass's music (conducted by Alan Johnson).
Ironically, they're more interested in the camera than the actual libretto, if you will.
Though daunting, it's "logical" to write libretti if you write poetry, she says.
Myto provides no libretto, but if you understand German, you will not need one.
At what price, the libretto reads, have you stolen "il mio bene"?
As you go through the libretto scene by scene, you realize that the concept works brilliantly.
But if in the opera house you sometimes notice a discrepancy between what you hear in the libretto and music and what you see onstage it is no less distracting than what moviegoers are asked to believe on a routine basis.
The line in the libretto "Sun Yat-sen, you traitor!" comes amid a romantic disagreement but may nonetheless have gained sudden and unwelcome resonance.
