Sentence examples for text of an opera from inspiring English sources

Libretto, ( Italian: "booklet") plural librettos or libretti, text of an opera, operetta, or other kind of musical theatre.

In this Q&A, John Metcalf explains how he turned a classic text into an opera.

The text of the opera is mostly a made-up language of nonsense.

The music is marked by metrical dissonance, which occurs both for musical reasons and in response to the text of the opera.

(Isherwood) 'THE MUSIC TEACHER, A PLAY/Opair' A pair of interlocking monologues surrounding a little parody of an opera, with text by Wallace Shawn and music by his brother Allen.

As a result, the Parks-Murray book is not eligible for a Tony nomination or award, because the committee did not distinguish between the new work and the original text of the 1935 opera.

It was an opera in-joke in search of an opera audience.

She is part of an opera performance".

The book begins at the opera: "She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences".

"La Muette" is considered the founding text of the grand-opera genre, in which high passions play out against a portentous historical backdrop, with an eclectic barrage of folkish airs, local-color dances, bellowing choruses, and thumping marches supplying a you-are-there sensation.

His belief in the importance of a listener understanding the texts of opera not only resulted in the many Opera in English recordings Harpe mentions but also in his annual financing the Batignano Festival in Italy so that young British singers could sing in Italian to Italians.