libretto

In John de los Santos’s jam-packed libretto, Macaria, who works as a hospital custodian, meets the mysterious Señora, who is actually Death, on a bus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Most arresting was the oldest opera represented here, Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” given an acute updating by director Eric Einhorn and Kelley Rourke, who devised the brilliantly calibrated English adaptation of the libretto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The libretto gave Kallman “a purpose he otherwise lacked,” transforming him from “an apparently worthless appendage, in the opinion of others,” to “a creative partner.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The opera was composed by Still with a libretto from the Missouri-born poet, playwright, novelist and social activist Langston Hughes, who connected Haiti’s struggle for freedom to his home country’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

If Ethan were here, he’d have the whole libretto written by the time we stepped out of the car.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Zigman was impressed by “Silent Night,” the 2011 opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, and added Campbell, a veteran of roughly 40 libretti.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

Both operas boast Alice Goodman libretti that promise to become lasting works of literature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

Mr. Teachout also wrote the libretti to three operas by composer Paul Moravec and contributed liner notes to dozens of recordings.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022

The store has 20 staff members, most of them part time, and stocks more than 20,000 titles, including plays in translation and musical libretti from popular Broadway plays.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2018

But it points to a certain weakness as a musician that Gluck could not be inspired except by the more thrilling portions of his libretti.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

Italian soprano Carmela Remigio told the Corriere della Sera newspaper that it was thanks to the opera and its librettos that Italian language was still known in the world.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

Both women wrote the librettos for the stage adaptations of their respective films too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

So when scholars got serious about “Don Carlos” a century later, they could reconstruct that cut music from handwritten orchestra parts, draft librettos, rehearsal reports and the like.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

Although he adapted familiar books by Emily Bronte, John Steinbeck and Robert Penn Warren for these pieces, working closely with the last two authors, Mr. Floyd always wrote his own librettos.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021

A peculiar offspring of the Second Empire are the brilliant burlesques of Offenbach, which owed at least part of their brilliancy to the librettos composed for them by MM.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury