In crafting her libretto, Ms. Moshiri distilled the tale into six brief scenes with five characters.
The libretto reads like the dramas of Friedrich Schiller, a poet in love with the categorical imperative.
In the libretto by poet Michael Symmons Roberts, three mysterious travelers arrive at the home of Abraham and Sarah.
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In Wagner's libretto, the Holy Grail is protected by an order of knights.
After agreeing to write the libretto, Mr. Shanley went to see "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Now Glumineau spends less time working on his libretto and more time in the cellar, carefully managing what Mother Nature delivers each year.
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Alexander McCall Smith will write the libretto for The Friendship Oratorio, which it is hoped can form part of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games events.
Its self-consciously surreal libretto by Luisa Costa Gomes includes arias in Portuguese and a spoken part in English for the elegantly reserved dancer, Lucinda Childs.
In the story and the libretto, the Bricklayer is the imaginary visitor of Mr. Parvin, a frail, elderly Iranian who emigrates to Houston with his wife.
The libretto, an 18th- century "education-of-a-tyrant" plot, features Tiridate, king of Thrace, who is obsessed with his sister-in-law, Zenobia, and wages indiscriminate war to get her.
Rigoletto, the Duke's court jester in Piave's libretto, is transformed by Mayer into a hanger-on and comic along the lines of Don Rickles and Joey Bishop.
It consists of poetry (often the briefest of fragments), a selection of essays, including several about authors from classical antiquity, and even the libretto of an opera.
The major gaffe of the night comes after Tosca kills Scarpia, when, according to the libretto, she places candles by his side and a crucifix on his chest.
Wagner might not have approved, but the gesture of reconciliation, overriding the libretto's misogyny and obsession with male purity, fit the music and completed Mr. Girard's moving, modern vision.
Mr. Sellars, a longtime collaborator of Mr. Adams, compiled the libretto from existing poems and texts ranging from the Bible to the writings of the Roman Catholic activist Dorothy Day.
The libretto, by Craig Lucas, tells of a teen-aged boy who is lured into an online world of fictive identities and furtive longing, and is eventually tricked into stabbing a younger boy.
So I don't think it was unusual for Bartok to pick a revisionist rendition of a dark and terror-filled fairy tale as the libretto for his first and only opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Then one day I received his telegram, which was like an opera libretto, just as theatrical, as dangerously childish and false, as everything he had said and written to others twenty years before .
The Met's joint commissioning program with Lincoln Center Theater will conduct a workshop this spring of Scott Wheeler's "The Sorrows of Frederick, " with a libretto by the late Romulus Linney based on his 1960s play.
The stunning banality of the libretto, by Mr. Wainwright and Bernadette Colomine, reaches its apex here, with lines like "Your beauty intoxicates me, " while Tim Albery's directing of this opera-within-an-opera references old-fashioned stand-and-deliver style at its most wooden.
Previn's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, with a libretto by Philip Littell, returned for Thursday night's semistaged concert performance at Carnegie Hall with Renee Fleming, who sang Blanche Dubois at the San Francisco Opera's world premiere production.
The locale of "Rigoletto" changed even before its first performance in 1851 Francesco Maria Piave adapted the libretto from an 1832 Victor Hugo play set in France, but objections by censors led to the shift to Italy.
Working with Mr. Cuomo, who has written a chamber opera based on the Bhagavad Gita as well as dozens of movie and television scores, Mr. Shanley would write "a chunk of the libretto" and send it to him.
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But the puzzles of the libretto seem to interest Mr Wilson less than how the performers look and move, and Mr Glass writes music less to fit particular words or dramatic exchanges than to create mood and atmosphere.
Mr. Crowe is uncomfortable with the libretto's recitatives though in that department he's far from the only one who suffers occasional lapses into silliness and sometimes there's a sense that he's relieved to get a patch of strenuous singing behind him.
The companies used an unspecified infrared-equipped Palm device and a Toshiba Libretto, which beamed requests for check authorizations to a point-of-sale terminal, in this case a VeriFone Tranz 330 that was retrofitted with an infrared device from ACTiSYS and a custom cable from CrossCheck.
"Fables of Faubus" shows how Mingus occasionally butted heads with corporate supervisors: The composer wrote a libretto that further castigated Orville Faubus, the segregationist governor of Arkansas, but Columbia refused to let him record the text (the title itself was nervy enough in that buttoned-down era).
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And sure enough, the retelling of Christ's last days through the eyes of Mary Magdalene is interlaced with heavy doses of modern social activism in this stirring new oratorio, composed by John Adams to a libretto compiled by Peter Sellars from texts both ancient and contemporary.
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