Sentence examples for their libretto from inspiring English sources

Stravinsky and Benois based their libretto on the Punch-and-Judy theatricals given during Shrovetide in old St . Petersburg

But, visually, movies transcend their lousy scripts as operas soar musically above their libretti.

(One reason Hitler might have shunned them was that almost all of their librettos were by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, who under Nazi law was Jewish, but died in 1929, just short of the shaming).

Both composers wrote their own librettos.

Most composers don't write their own librettos.

The model and actress Doe Avedon, whose serene beauty evoked comparisons with Grace Kelly, was married for six years to the celebrated fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon, and their relationship was the inspiration for a libretto by their friend, the writer Leonard Gershe, that became the classic film musical, Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.

His early concert works, while hardly as iconoclastic as, say, Schoenberg's, had an acerbic edge that the Nazis found objectionable, and the operas, with their mixed currents of cabaret, jazz and modernism — to say nothing of their left-leaning librettos by the likes of Bertolt ­Brecht and Georg Kaiser — touched on just about every aspect of contemporary music that the Nazis deplored as decadent.

The playwright Wendy Wasserstein said "it was a wonderful thing" when the San Francisco Opera approached her about writing the libretto for their new production of Franz Lehár's "Merry Widow".

"They came down to Northampton last week because we're planning for me to do the libretto on their next opera," Moore recently told Mustard magazine.

Jonathan Miller's production for the Metropolitan Opera is attractive and traditional, and most crucially of all, it lets Mozart's music and da Ponte's libretto work their magic unhindered.

Jonathan Miller's production is attractive and traditional and, most crucially of all, it lets Mozart's music and Da Ponte's libretto work their magic unhindered.