Sentence examples for printed libretto from inspiring English sources

Ms. Prestini's score is a pastiche of antique songs and dances, both folkish and formal, all duly identified in the printed libretto.

For more than 250 years all that was known of Vivaldi's Motezuma, performed in Venice in 1733, was its printed libretto.

Mr. Andriessen originally hoped to have supertitles (the libretto is in English, Italian, Latin and Dutch), but Carnegie couldn't accommodate that; a printed libretto will be included in the program.

He performed again on 20 February 1724, as a printed libretto shows, and probably did so again in later years.

Both scores contain essentially the same music, though each differs from the printed libretto and has unique additions and omissions.

The text emerges with crisp clarity, which is just as well because the printed libretto that accompanies the discs is virtually illegible.

The 18th-century practice of issuing printed libretti gave way to supertitles.

These no-frills albums, without printed librettos, are a reminder of the days when major companies maintained budget labels.

In the 1630s Venetian opera became a public spectacle, and audiences used printed librettos to follow the drama.

Why else those printed librettos, supertitles and back-of-the-seat television screens, bearing messages that in the end we wish we had never read.

Only two refer to Monteverdi as the composer, though this is not significant composers' names were rarely given on printed librettos.