“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.”