| So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston. |
| 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. |
| The performances were somewhat overshadowed by a certain coolness between composer and 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. |
| It's shocking that he hasn't written musicals before because he's a natural librettist. |
