Sentence examples for the first libretto from inspiring English sources

Somewhat improbably, the first libretto was written by the poet W. H. Auden, whom Mr. Wasserman revered — and fought with.

I certainly wasn't thinking of this consciously, like, "We'll have a feminist spirit in this opera," but I was concerned, when the first libretto was sent to me, that there were no female characters.

Because of the experimental nature of the ballet, its libretto appeared concurrently; it was the first formal libretto published for a dance drama.

In approaching his first libretto Mr. Karam researched the form as deeply as he did the content.

The first draft libretto that Illica produced for Puccini resurfaced in 2000 after being lost for many years.

Orfeo is also the Roundhouse's first opera, Boyd's first opera, and Paterson's first libretto – and as if that weren't enough, the show is also buoyed by the Roundhouse's work with more opera debutantes, featuring as it will 15 teenagers from East London Dance and nine student singers from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

His first libretto to use that version was called Siegfrieds Tod ("The Death of Siegfried"), which became the basis of Götterdämmerung.

He had come to watch a dress rehearsal of "For You," an opera by the British composer Michael Berkeley, for which McEwan had written his first libretto.

Beeson's score is exquisitely crafted, but its survival, in the end, is due to the extraordinary dramatic insight of a composer who wrote his first libretto at fifteen.

Il ritorno was his first libretto; he would later, in 1644, write another Ulysses-based libretto for Francesco Sacrati.

Strozzi's libretto has vanished along with whatever music Monteverdi managed to write, but Strozzi wrote a second libretto under the same name, which was set by Francesco Sacrati and produced in Venice in 1641.