| Another feature of the early programming were Christmas pantomimes, with published librettos, for instance Harry Lemon's 'Dick Whittington and His Wonderful Cat. |
| Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude. |
| Pinafore and The Mikado giving, in some cases, backstory that is not found in the librettos. |
| Opera librettos are authoritatively transcribed in IPA, such as Nico Castel's volumes and Timothy Cheek's book Singing in Czech. |
| The Yeomen of the Guard, the most operatic of Sullivan's scores with Gilbert, and the most serious of Gilbert's librettos, has been lucky on records. |
| Mozart's operas to librettos by Da Ponte examine attempts to constrain the irrationality of desire within the artificial boundaries of class and society. |
