Sentence examples for of a libretto from inspiring English sources

Berlioz's friends intrigued to procure the assignment of a libretto.

The poems slowly coalesced into a jigsaw of a libretto.

The inclusion of a libretto alone is a major advantage.

Of course it involves a tradeoff: vocal lines were carefully fitted by composers to the specific language of a libretto.

But it takes major meddling with the text of a libretto to produce a performing version in a different language.

The words of a libretto (or, for Beckett, of a play script) made this communication more precise.

In 1857 he began Der Barbier von Bagdad, on a libretto of his own based on The Thousand and One Nights.

Thebans, a skilful retelling of Sophocles to a libretto by Frank McGuinness, was commissioned by English National Opera and received its world premiere in May.

His next opera, L'Upupa, was on an Arabian theme to a libretto of his own.

In the same year, she likely also sang in her father's Il rapimento di Cefalo ("The Abduction of Cephalus"), composed to a libretto by Gabriello Chiabrera.

The music, set to a libretto of indeterminate origin, is an astonishing feat for a teenager and almost as elaborate as the convoluted plot.