Sentence examples for old libretto from inspiring English sources

Some of these "Rite"s — including the best one I ever saw, Paul Taylor's 1980 "Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal)" — have chucked the old libretto.

It is a pastiche opera — a work in which Handel reconfigured arias and choruses from earlier works (among them "Acis and Galatea," "Alcina," "Scipione," "Berenice," "Imeneo" and "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno") to fit an old libretto by Antonio Lotti.

Now, more than thirty years later, Sondheim's deconstructed musicals are the state of the art, and Brooks has brought back to Broadway, in a well-written libretto, that old formula of "no girls, no gags, no chance".

The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed (in a miracle of compression) by master-librettist Boito to give the eighty-year-old Verdi a superb libretto, on which he lavished more wonderful tunes than most composers manage in a lifetime.

But he was tempted out of retirement by the composer and librettist Arrigo Boito, who came to Verdi with the idea of turning "Othello" into an opera, for which he, in a generous artistic act, would write a libretto for the old master to set.

His great love was always music, and he got a job when he was 13 selling librettos at the old Met because he loved opera.

"There's a lot of mythology about the contemporary gay rights movement," said Mr. Korie, a slim, professorial-looking 45-year-old whose credits include the libretto for the 1995 opera "Harvey Milk," a work based on the life of San Francisco's first openly gay city supervisor.

He envisaged the disappearance of the old type of opera, with its libretto provided by a hack versifier, as an opportunity for the composer to make a "set piece" opera out of purely musical forms separated by a recitative.

Crimp's equally spare libretto retells the centuries-old story of the Pied Piper.

Menotti's libretto was dismissed as old-fashioned and downright disgusting.

"The libretto is a little bit old-fashioned," he said.