| Mozart's operas to librettos by Da Ponte examine attempts to constrain the irrationality of desire within the artificial boundaries of class and society. |
| He wrote librettos, screenplays, book reviews, everything possible in the English language, and on top of all that he played the French horn. |
| Auden, in his librettos for Britten, Stravinsky, and Henze, established himself as an important writer in the form. |
| Multiple translators in different locations can create libretti in up to eight different languages. |
| Because it performs operas in their original language, it uses surtitles to translate the libretti into English. |
| This may seem an exaggeration but some fifty libretti of productions of his operas have come down to us while other operas must have been lost. |
