For Le Coq d'Or, I went back to Belsky, the librettist for Rimsky-Korsakov.

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Austrian poet and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's long collaboration with Strauss produced a series of superb works, starting with "Elektra" in 1909.

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His work as librettist has opened a new creative avenue for Mr. Shanley and possibly made a saint of the composer, Douglas J.

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As part of the programme of events, South Korean composer Unsuk Chin will adapt Alice Through the Looking Glass, based on Lewis Carrol's fantastical story with librettist David Henry Hwang.

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Thayil, a poet and librettist who has lived in Mumbai, Hong Kong and New York, has called his first novel - one of six books nominated for last year's Booker prize - "nightmarish".

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Originally conceived by composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal as a blend of genres, the original, first staged in 1912, began with a ballet-spiced play, followed by a different version of the one-act opera.

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For his first solo effort as both librettist and composer, the Brooklyn-based artist (who also performs as Pierre in "Natasha"), took pages from Tolstoy's text and whittled them down, cutting characters, adding lines, and composing for an orchestra that includes clarinet, glockenspiel, cello and guitar.

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And, finally, Don Giovanni, which Kinmonth has re-situated in 18th-century Venice, home to Casanova and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, whose roots in Venetian street theatre would have given the opera's original productions an abrasive topical edge as recognizable to contemporary audiences as Shakespeare's words were to the crowds at the Globe.

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