libretto

Mr. Vavrek’s elegant libretto, which deftly repurposes Mr. Saunders’s evocative period language, narrows that huge cast of characters to a handful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The Texas company’s first commissioned opera, with a score by Jorge Sosa and a libretto by John de los Santos, is a Mexican-infused take on a fairy tale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Its wordy libretto, faithfully adapted by Philip Littell from the Tennessee Williams play, is a bit too long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

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

Restlessness defined his career: “I write poetry, essays, opera libretti, even scientific articles. But I am not a specialist,” he explained to the Irish Times in 2003.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022

Scholars have speculated that the texts might be closer to libretti for an operatic experience that is as intellectual as it is emotional — and therefore difficult for us to precisely imagine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2022

In social media postings, New York composer Daniel Roumain said Sunday he was commissioned to write one of four libretti for a “Greenwood Overcomes” concert scheduled for a May 1 performance by the Tulsa Opera.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2021

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

At the outset the opinion may be hazarded that the provision of his weekly libretti caused Bach greater anxiety than the setting of them to music, a task which he accomplished with almost magical facility.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel

That certainly appealed to Hammerstein, he said, whose librettos tended to have political aspects to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

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

His first two — “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer” — had librettos by poet Alice Goodman that featured long speeches and meditations.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

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

Study his librettos, learn to feel each leitmotiv.

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various