libretto

Kevin Day wrote the music and Tifara Brown the libretto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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

Pushkin’s text eventually became the libretto that Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov employed in his opera of the same name.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

The libretto is cumbersome although full of dramatic promise and surprise and with a comic episode that prefigures “Falstaff.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

What’s more, he wrote the libretto as well as the music, and drew up the specifications of the purpose- built theatre at Bayreuth in which it was to be performed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Those libretti are striking assemblages from documentary and literary sources by Sellars that Adams’ music brings to life.

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

If out of a published cycle of libretti expressly written for him Bach chose only eight texts, are Picander's “manufactured compositions,” as Spitta calls them, likely to have attracted him to a greater degree?

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus

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

The theatrical genius of Shakespeare often nests a play within the play, and Verdi captures this brilliantly in “Otello” and “Falstaff,” both with librettos by Arrigo Boito.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021

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

What I can't understand," said Lothair, "is, why Theodore, with his command of language and poetical expression, doesn't write librettos for himself?

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm