Britten, more than most composers, chose good libretti for his operas. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
She has written libretti for ten musical works with the composer Robert Starer. From Wordnik.com. [Gail Godwin biography] Reference
Most opera libretti have only a marginal existence apart from the music they inspire. From Wordnik.com. [Words for Music Perhaps] Reference
The Barenboim set has complete libretti for all the music-dramas, which is always helpful. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Ring] Reference
Standard practice for opera libretti and Lieder in CD booklets, of course, but not elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
I'll concur with an even more general point: a lot of modern opera libretti aren't terribly good. From Wordnik.com. [Minority Report on Dr. Atomic / Redux] Reference
He had some gift for writing, and most of the libretti of these operas were translated by himself. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Airlines, snacks, beverages, carmakers and steelworks have all been immortalized in Carnival libretti. From Wordnik.com. [Carnival Goes Political] Reference
Where are the novels, the plays, the poems, the songs, the libretti, of this massive contemporary anxiety?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
Or this, in speaking of the formation of the opera and the demand for better libretti after the period of Spontini?. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
Philips would be wise to get a Philips Classics set out: with complete libretti, insightful liner notes, and lots of pictures. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Ring] Reference
The Barenboim set on Warner is my gold standard: decent packaging, all the libretti from the original releases, and the right price. From Wordnik.com. [With a little bit of concentration...] Reference
"We hit it off," Meehan says, "but I felt I couldn't do it alone, so I looked for a partner who had experience of writing libretti.". From Wordnik.com. [Big Brother sings!] Reference
Some people are vaguely embarrassed by Tippett's self-written libretti, but is there anybody else, in any genre, who goes where he goes?. From Wordnik.com. [Nickel in the Slot] Reference
Brookfield, and write libretti for Emilia's operas. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Three libretti by him have I rejected -- three, madame. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of Ambition] Reference
Wagner always wrote his own libretti, even in those days. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
The libretti are given as separate files grouped by composer. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
"You tried to sell libretti to my husband before he was famous.". From Wordnik.com. [The Way of Ambition] Reference
The final CD (70) is a ROM with libretti and 'Callas Picture Gallery'. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
The story is contrived (even verismo opera libretti were contrived!), set in revolutionary. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Messrs. Novello for similar permission regarding quotations from the libretti of the operas. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Wagner Composer of Operas] Reference
None the less must the translations included in our libretti be pronounced painfully inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
The Dominicans also frequently furnished libretti, i.e. dogmatic or symbolic themes for works of art. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
To what extent does theatre influence your poetry, prose influence your libretti, and so on and so on?. From Wordnik.com. [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference
It seems to me the libretti of operas are generally singularly ill conceived, both morally and artistically. From Wordnik.com. [A romance of the republic] Reference
The CD itself is accompanied by an informative leaflet with complete libretti of all of the songs of the book. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
Yet we as composers frequently set songs and libretti with the intention of dramatizing things other than ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
Schauspieldirektor 'with new and more effective libretti, but in no case has its performance attained any real success. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
Bohemia, but the thoroughly national sentiment of the libretti must naturally militate against their success elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
As J.A. Symonds has said of them, and as Wagner seemed to apprehend, they have in them good material for operatic libretti. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
A talented composer of the first rank with a lifelong interest in opera, Weber was hampered by the lack of suitable libretti. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
Having relatively little formal musical training, Wagner was very well-read and wrote the libretti for all of his mature operas. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Tracy produced in a night two sketches of libretti for Emilia to choose from -- the Roman Clelia being one, and Camillus the other. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
Mr. Pericles thrown on a false scent, he persuaded Tracy Runningbrook to come to Brookfield, and write libretti for Emilia's operas. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
That Mozart had been able to compose music to such libretti as those of "Don Giovanni" and "Così fan tutte" filed him with pained wonder. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
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