Sentence examples for powerful libretto from inspiring English sources
With its boldly eclectic score and powerful libretto, "Dog Days" tells an apocalyptic story unstintingly.
In both cases the "Te Deum" is coupled with the Requiem, the work in which Verdi found his most consistently powerful libretto.
So, too, complicated operatic librettos come to life through powerful music.
Schoenberg's largest opera with monumental choral and orchestral passages was the powerful oratorio-like Moses und Aron (1957; his own libretto), left incomplete at his death.
A rich, powerful land owner, called the Protector in Crimp's libretto, commissions an artist, the Boy, to celebrate his life and the achievements of his family in an extravagant illuminated book.
The libretto turns the norm around so that the powerful monarch in this piece is a woman.
"Die Tote Stadt" ("The Dead City"), adapted from a novel by Georges Rodenbach, has a libretto by Paul Schott, actually the composer and his father, Julius Korngold, a powerful music critic, who used this name as a pseudonym.
In this powerful and richly nuanced production the director Sam Buntrock penetrates the psychological murkiness of Britten's haunted opera, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, by clarifying the circumstances and domestic relationships among the characters.
The two operas of Alban Berg—Wozzeck (1925; libretto by the composer, after Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck) and Lulu (1937; libretto by the composer, after Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist [1895; "Earth Spirit"] and Die Büchse der Pandora [1904; "Pandora's Box"])—are among the most powerful, effective music dramas of the 20th century.
+ 1 booklet of the libretto.
