Sentence examples for whose libretto from inspiring English sources

The most renowned of his operas was Giasone (1649; "Jason"), whose libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini included farcical episodes.

He cast the teen-ager in a number of productions, including the experimental 1976 opera "Einstein on the Beach," whose libretto was composed, in part, of Knowles's poems.

He will be particularly in our thoughts next season, as we present the company premiere of Barber's "Vanessa", whose libretto was written by Maestro Menotti.

Mr. Solha, 71, was in Recife for the premiere of an opera whose libretto he had written when the film's casting director, Daniel Aragão, approached him, addressing him as "Hey, Francisco," which immediately made him curious to read the script.

For the past year, Grossman has been working on a new project, one that combines a prose narrative of novella length with an "operatic play" whose libretto is written in verse.

The Lion's Face, whose libretto is written by the poet Glyn Maxwell, is set to be performed at the Brighton Festival on 20 May, and then in London at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre.

The Innsbruck revival is notable not just because it represents a major work of an important composer but also because it has a text by Pietro Metastasio, the poet whose librettos were set to music over and over again in the 18th century.

There he revived some of his best operas, though Lucrezia Borgia had to be withdrawn because of objections by Victor Hugo, on whose drama the libretto was based.

Together with librettist Gene Scheer and stage director Leonard Foglia, Heggie has done a masterful job of reducing 800 pages of Melville's novel to an accessible contemporary opera whose 60-page libretto fills the theater with a sense of magic, mystery, and the hypermasculinity of men at sea.

January 27, 1885 New York City, New York November 11 , 1945New York City, New York Jerome Kern, (born Jan . 27 , 1885New York City died Nov. 11, 1945, New York City) one of the major U.S. composers of musical comedy, whose Show Boat (with libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II) inaugurated the serious musical play in U.S. theatre.

"There's a lot of mythology about the contemporary gay rights movement," said Mr. Korie, a slim, professorial-looking 45-year-old whose credits include the libretto for the 1995 opera "Harvey Milk," a work based on the life of San Francisco's first openly gay city supervisor.