| It's shocking that he hasn't written musicals before because he's a natural librettist. |
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| The performances were somewhat overshadowed by a certain coolness between composer and librettist. |
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| So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston. |
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| Working on Macbeth, he drove his librettist half insane with demands that he stick close to Shakespeare. |
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| More, too often, both Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal seem to be coasting on automatic pilot. |
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| Von Hofmannsthal is best remembered now as the librettist of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. |
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| It is the first time that a collaborative effort between a composer and librettist is to be recognized as a whole by a musical and literary jury. |
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| In addition to his activities as a composer, singer and librettist, he is recorded in history as a doctor and a diplomat. |
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| A skilled librettist will know how to leave space for the music to flourish. |
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| Handel or his librettist found the story in Plutarch's chronicles of Roman notabilities, which had been magnificently Englished, in the 17th century, by Sir Thomas North. |
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| The tradition theme was invented for the Broadway stage version by an American librettist, and brilliantly musicalised by an American composer and lyricist. |
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| Mozart's 'Le Nozze di Figaro' is a farce with dressing up and disguises, a comedy of manners in which Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte cut the nobility and the powerful of the Ancien Régime down to size. |
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| Così fan tutte, first performed in Vienna on January 26, 1790, was the third and final opera in which Mozart collaborated with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. |
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| He is a playwright, a director, a librettist, a composer, an actor, an inspiring teacher and mentor, and an advocate for the central role of creativity and the arts. |
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| Fourteen lyrical tragedies written by Lully himself with his librettist Quinault successfully accounted for all lyrical activity at the Royal Academy of Music. |
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| Their Excellencies will attend the opening night of Frobisher, a new Canadian opera composed by John Estacio and librettist John Murrell, and co-commissioned and co-produced by Calgary Opera and The Banff Centre. |
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| The status of the librettist declined and the role was largely picked up by those who had little experience in the medium and scant knowledge of opera dramaturgy. |
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| Usually, the librettist produces the substantive ideas that inspire the composition, including the dramatic structure, characters and scenario of the opera. |
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| In the 21st century there are signs that the status of the librettist is being revalued, and that a generation of writers is emerging with a renewed understanding of the dramatic requirements of the genre. |
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| Use few words … few but significant Giuseppe Verdi Another frequently asked question is whether a librettist is involved in the production process itself. |
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| But how does one become a librettist today? |
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| An engineer, a translator, a writer, a script writer, a librettist, a journalist, a composer, a trumpet player, a performer, Boris Vian had never been understood during his lifetime. |
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| Obviously, such records will have an added entry for the librettist. |
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| An acclaimed playwright and librettist, he is also admired for his skill as a director, notably for his collaborative approach, as well as for his versatility and creativity. |
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| In the hands of the librettist, Thomas Morell, and in contrast to the tragic story from the Old Testament, the work ends happily, as the offering of Jephtha's daughter is hindered through the intervention of an angel. |
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| This masterpiece penned by Mozart and the congenial librettist Da Ponte about a womaniser who suddenly finds all his attempts at seduction thwarted, has been one of the composer's most popular works ever since its premiere. |
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| One a composer and librettist, the other a poet, the two women met through the journal Shakespeariana, which Porter edited. |
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| In Italy Handel met librettist Antonio Salvi, with whom he later collaborated. |
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| The words, by an inexperienced librettist, were judged to fall far short of Gilbert's standards. |
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| In 1735 Handel received the text for a new oratorio named Saul from its librettist Charles Jennens, a wealthy landowner with musical and literary interests. |
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| Broadway-savvy gimmicks, gags and arched-eyebrow throwaways are embedded in every nook and cranny of Yasbek's score and librettist Jeffrey Lane's book. |
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| A mouseover on production icons gives a quick preview that includes composer, librettist, conductor, principals, running time, and short description of the production. |
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| Dettori, riding the fancied Librettist, claimed he was impeded by Ivan Denisovich, ridden by Seamus Heffernan, on the final bend of the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. |
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| Fully aware of the likely stop-go tactics his French rivals would adopt, Dettori popped Librettist smartly out of the stalls before kicking for home early. |
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| Farnie, Author, Journalist, Golfer, Librettist, Adapter, and Song Writer Keith Drummond Sharp The Queme Press in conjunction with The Fife Family History Society. |
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| Out of the Alleged mare Mysterial, he is a half-brother to Group 1-winning miler Librettist and hails from the family of July Cup hero Agnes World. |
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