“One may lament the absence of a libretto but the CD version will probably be in most collectors' libraries anyway.”

“The libretto was re-written for raciness and local flavour and sung in English with surtitles, which seems redundant but was surprisingly handy.”

“In a letter of June, 1815, Rossini wrote to a poet concerning a proposed libretto for a new work for Rome.”

“It's shocking that he hasn't written musicals before because he's a natural librettist.”

“Working on Macbeth, he drove his librettist half insane with demands that he stick close to Shakespeare.”

“More, too often, both Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal seem to be coasting on automatic pilot.”

“Because it performs operas in their original language, it uses surtitles to translate the libretti into English.”

“Let me say, at once, to avoid misapprehension, that I refer here to the majority of the anglicised versions of foreign libretti.”

“He composed the music of operettes based on unpopular libretti written by Verlaine.”

“Auden, in his librettos for Britten, Stravinsky, and Henze, established himself as an important writer in the form.”

“He wrote librettos, screenplays, book reviews, everything possible in the English language, and on top of all that he played the French horn.”

“Mozart's operas to librettos by Da Ponte examine attempts to constrain the irrationality of desire within the artificial boundaries of class and society.”