Three of the operas he wrote for Vienna were on librettos by the celebrated poet Lorenzo Da Ponte: Il burbero di buon cuore (1786; "The Good-Hearted Curmudgeon"), Una cosa rara, o sia bellezza ed onestà (1786; "A Rare Thing, or Beauty and Honesty"), and L'arbore di Diana (1787; "The Tree of Diana").
A book based on a libretto based on a book might be a tricky sell to most jaded marketing managers, but Unbound didn't mind.
Eventually, Nazism became seriously distressing to him, with the exile and death of his Jewish friend and collaborator Zweig, whose name he insisted on printing on the libretto of the opera they made together, Die schweigsame Frau.
The masterpiece of his early years was the opera buffa La buona figliuola, or La cecchina (1760), on a libretto by Goldoni based on Richardson's novel Pamela.
In 1857 he began Der Barbier von Bagdad, on a libretto of his own based on The Thousand and One Nights.
Mr. Dorfman is working on a libretto for an opera based on a story from the Upanishads, philosophical Hindu texts, that is scheduled to premiere in India in November.
The subjects, touched on in a libretto by Deborah Artman, include everything from extinct species and languages to abandoned technologies and lost rituals.
More recently she has been working on the libretto for a "feminist opera" which she says is also a satire on feminist dogma.
It's quite a liberation actually, when one's own ego no longer blocks the view". More recently she has been working on the libretto for a "feminist opera" which she says is also a satire on feminist dogma.
Tells how he was a collaborator-cum-technical adviser on the libretto of Mozart's "Don Giovanni"..
