| 单词 | librettist |
| 例句 | As part of the festivities, the Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the 1947 American opera “The Mother of Us All” by the composer Virgil Thomson and the librettist Gertrude Stein. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Death in Venice emerges anew, without some of the archness to which Britten and his librettists were so susceptible, yet with its rich layers of meaning fully intact. Death in Venice English National Opera – review 2013-06-17T10:41:00Z Mr. Schnyder, in a phone interview, said that, because it had a white, male, European composer, the piece needed a librettist who could bring an African American and a female sensibility. Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Inspired by the true stories in the documentary "Well Founded Fear," librettist- lyricist Nabel joined with composer Bob Christianson to develop the dramatic show in the Village Theatre's 2009 Village Originals new works program. 'Take Me America' at Village Theatre 2011-09-15T19:26:04Z Inspired by the librettist Arrigo Boito’s breezy adaptation of Shakespeare’s comic verse, Verdi wrote music that responded minutely to the patterns and flow of the words. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z And Gelb said that they have also discussed a potential show created from scratch, in which Stone would serve as librettist and director. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z She is also a librettist, short story writer and artistic collaborator, most notably with Anne Bevan, for whom she provided prose poems to accompany Bevan's sculptural responses to the history of obstetrics. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z "The videos give you an idea of what the librettists and composers are thinking." The Industry, wild Up to workshop new operas at 'First Take' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The libretto Vivaldi used, by Metastasio — the go-to librettist of the era — survives in several forms from its use by other composers. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z ‘STONEWALL’ Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a landmark in the gay rights movement, New York City Opera has commissioned a work by the composer Iain Bell and the librettist Mark Campbell. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Conner shares directing and lyric duties with librettist Stephen Gregory Smith, another busy Signature artist, and their interpretation of James’s famously ambiguous events leans toward a cycle of abuse. Adapting to the times: Mexican lovers, Irish terrorists and James’s ghosts 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z “The opera suffers from the lack of a professional librettist,” he said recently. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z His wish list includes Virgil Thomson’s “Four Saints in Three Acts”; he adores its librettist, Gertrude Stein. A playwright and polymath with a foot in two worlds 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Alongside Handel, the film looks at his devout, depressive librettist Charles Jennens, and at actress and favorite singer Susannah Cibber, the subject of the aforementioned scandal, whose parts Handel taught her note by note. 'Toy Story,' 'One Child,' Bing Crosby, Neil Armstrong and Handel 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Censorship is part of opera history, and composers and librettists have found all kinds of innovative ways around it. Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The videos, Sharon says, aim to make the audiences feel as included as the composers and librettists. The Industry, wild Up to workshop new operas at 'First Take' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The venue formerly known as the Mark Hellinger Theater — now operating as the Times Square Church — was the site of the librettist and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner’s greatest triumph. An Infamous ‘Lolita’ Musical Gets a Belated New York Debut 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z “Fellow Travelers,” by the composer Gregory Spears and the librettist Greg Pierce, is the most romantic new opera I have seen in years. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z She termed herself then “a neophyte librettist” who had to learn and “in some instances to get out of the way, to allow the robustness of the music to take us through the journey.” Composer Ian Ricky Gordon premieres 2 operas in 5-day span 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z “I’m not a baritone,” Villazón said, noting that Mozart wrote the part for Emanuel Schikaneder, the “Flute” librettist, who was a famed actor and impresario but far from a traditional opera singer. A Tenor’s Met Career Seemed Over. Not So Fast. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The last, a collaboration with librettist Gavin Kostick, is a musical treatment of a theme that probably - actually, undoubtedly - would have been banned in Roman Catholic Ireland not too many years ago. Irish composer Raymond Deane talks Achill, Alma and ABBA too 2013-02-14T14:01:41Z Gounod and his librettists weren’t particularly interested in Shakespeare’s theme of two families reconciled through the sacrifice of their children, but the composer compensated by constructing a nuanced sonic study of youth shadowed by death. At Castleton Festival, a fitting tribute to Lorin Maazel 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z "It was a chance to showcase Cape Town Opera," says Michael Williams, the show's librettist and director. Saint and sinner: the Nelson Mandela opera 2012-06-10T16:59:01Z Ms. Elliott, 42, who won for most promising musical theater librettist, also lives in New York. ArtsBeat: Adam Gwon and Michelle Elliott Win Musical-Theater Writing Prizes 2011-05-13T18:26:20Z The librettist, Schikaneder, obviously wanted a big, fun popular show with plenty of scenic effects. Peter Brook: and for my next trick ? 2011-03-16T21:31:01Z The opera’s gifted librettist, Matthew Jocelyn, grasped what Shakespeare scholars have come to understand, that there is no single definitive text of the play. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Don Giovanni can’t change his life, of course—and the composer and librettist bring him to justice in a furious, slyly ironic conclusion that’s one of the greatest tag endings in the history of theatre. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z And it is true that Picker and librettist Gene Scheer bring nothing newly shocking or original to Émile Zola's story. Long Beach Opera puts its own spin on 'Thérèse Raquin' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Glass asked librettist Rudy Wurlitzer to turn the book into an opera and the work was duly sent to Disney Studios for consideration. Philip Glass opera shows Walt Disney's fantasy world in a new light 2013-01-06T00:08:29Z Some of the most successful screenwriters, novelists, television producers and rock-opera librettists I know are about a hundred times lazier than I am. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z But the reworking of “Appomattox,” the opera, was actually spurred in part by the librettist. ‘Appomattox’: A new version of a new opera 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Fin de Siecle Vienna was the home of Freud and Jung at the same time that Strauss librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal was active. Strauss' Elektra at Salzburg darkly brilliant 2010-08-09T00:46:00Z And he began to have success himself as a lyricist and librettist. Kenward Elmslie, Poet and Librettist, Dies at 93 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z As a librettist, Campbell shared the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for the opera "Silent Night," based on the World War I movie "Joyeux Noël." Steve Jobs, the opera: Coming to Santa Fe in 2017 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z That sense of portraying a moment in history — no matter how fictionalized Schiller and Verdi and his librettist made it — is part of the excitement for both singers. The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z It is McFall's own story, evoked in her first book of poems, "The Pilot's Daughter," which was what made Hagen want her as his librettist in the first place. Seattle Opera's 'Amelia': Approachable music, a powerful story 2010-04-28T23:27:00Z Still, I wonder what could have been had Mr. Karchin and his librettist taken more chances and fashioned a dramatic structure that better suited the contemporary style of the music. Review: When Anaïs Met Circe, and Other Operatic Adventures 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z A new prologue features the composer and librettist planning their next opera and admiring some Japanese objects. Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z This year’s festival opened here on Saturday with the premiere of “JFK,” an ambitious opera by the composer David T. Little and the librettist Royce Vavrek. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The librettist and composer wanted to break with the traditions of Italian opera by steeping it with elements from the French. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z Commissioning youth operas was just one initiative that Zambello brought to Glimmerglass, one that allowed her to give composers and librettists a chance. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Will is the champion know-it-all, ordering an intern to look up all eight musicals that won a Pulitzer Prize — and list the composers, lyricists and librettists. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom’ Returns, With Some New Faces and Issues 2013-07-12T21:33:38Z With "Marilyn Forever," he said, librettist Bowering had no problem revising her book and radio script to go with the musical flow and propel the drama. 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The Kennedy Center and its resident opera and orchestra will commission composers and librettists from around the country to respond to local racial crimes and violence as part of an effort to promote anti-racism. Kennedy Center to commission anti-racism works, expand programs for black artists and audiences 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Photo: PR Five:15 – Operas Made in Scotland was Scottish Opera's project for encouraging new operas, inviting composers and librettists to create short music-theatre pieces with the potential for something more ambitious. This week's new live music 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z But Czech lady librettists were common in the late 19th century, when Smetana wrote his now rarely performed “Kiss,” a comedy set to texts by Eliska Krasnohorska. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Kiss’ at the Opera Theater of St. Louis 2013-06-23T20:56:36Z A former war reporter, foreign correspondent, theater critic and librettist, among other exploits, the Oxford-educated Mr. Fenton is also a scholar of architecture and interior design. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The composer – also a poet, himself, as well as the opera’s librettist and conductor – was 25 when he completed the score. Walt Whitman's operatic America in 'Crossing' gets its West Coast premiere 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Kudos, too, to librettist Mark Campbell for an insightful text that avoids the pitfall, all too easy with this material, of becoming sanctimonious. ‘As One’: New opera serves as effective monodrama, subversive duet 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The question “Why write an opera?” was posed to every composer and librettist, who answered it in program notes and sometimes in the video introductions screened before each performance. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z Puccini alienated a series of librettists as he kept demanding changes in the text trying to get it right. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Throughout the company, more diversity was needed, the report said, not just among dancers, but also among the musicians, librettists and other artists who work there, and in the company’s technical and administrative staff. Paris Opera to Act on Racist Stereotypes in Ballet 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z That is exactly the freedom that Little and his librettist Royce Vavrek needed for a work meant to show through phantasmagorical nightmares and prosaic frailties how even real physical and emotional pain beats the alternative. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z “Having had Barbra Streisand in that role almost froze the musical,” said Barbara Hogenson, the literary agent representing the show’s librettist, who over two decades has attended many a meeting to talk about revivals. Finding ‘Funny Girl.’ Finally. 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The librettist Greg Pierce deserves much credit for the dramatic urgency of the opera, which unfolds as a series of short, telling scenes, some of which overlap effectively. Risk-Taking New Opera Tells a Tragic 1950s Gay Love Story 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z "I always thought that the play was really an opera but with the music missing," said Previn, who worked with librettist Philip Littell to adapt the Tennessee Williams play for the operatic stage. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But consider the labor involved for Gene Scheer, the librettist, who had to pare down a leviathan novel to performable length while maintaining Melville’s grand language and moralistic tone. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z “People are going to see the story through a different lens because of Ferguson and Black Lives Matter,” Todd Kreidler, the librettist, predicted. A Tupac Musical Gets a Second Chance 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Goldstein, 40, won the prize for the most promising musical theater librettist. Musical-Theater Writers Awarded Kleban Prizes 1453-08-13T05:00:00Z It tries to do both, and fortunately her librettist has been skillful enough to avoid the worst consequences. Review: ‘Between Worlds,’ With English National Opera, Addresses 9/11 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Surely to combine the two is hardest of all, but librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's dramaturgic skill and Strauss' compositional genius saw them triumphantly through. Opera review: Young artists offer seductive 'Ariadne' 2010-04-02T20:23:00Z It’s not enough to quit her hodgepodge of day jobs—sometimes Broadway gigs—as a composer, dramaturge, librettist, lyricist, or script supervisor. A Thousand Cuts 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Ms. León brought Mr. Gates into the project as its librettist. An Opera About Little Rock Integration, With Libretto by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Another collaboration with the librettist Royce Vavrek, the new work was described as ushering in a new genre of “horror opera” by The Washington Post. A New ‘Horror Opera’ Opens Miller Theater’s Next Season 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z For all the adjustments and abridgments Gounod and his librettists made to turn “Romeo” into “Roméo,” they maintained the key scenes that move the wrenching plot forward: ball, balcony, bed and tomb. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z All he lacked was a librettist, but that wasn’t going to be easy. A George Benjamin Exacting Storm in Opera Comes to Mostly Mozart 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “Blood Rose,” based loosely on “Beauty and the Beast,” was an example of the potential perils of being your own librettist. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z “The performers, the composer, the librettist, the designer and the director shared the bows at the end,” Howard Klein wrote in his review in The New York Times. Kenward Elmslie, Poet and Librettist, Dies at 93 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Opera is always obsessed with the foibles and frailties of the human heart, but no librettist carried a better stethoscope than Lorenzo Da Ponte. Cos? fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop ? review 2012-02-12T00:06:08Z If the visionary conclusion of Jiang’s aria suggests a counterintuitive identification with the character on the part of the librettist, Ms. Goodman does not deny it. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z At the heart of this 1885 operetta by the librettist William Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan is a satire skewering British bureaucratic zeal. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Philip Hensher, the opera’s librettist, remembered the Argyll divorce case, Adès said: The duchess fit the bill perfectly. A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “There is no such thing as ‘Hamlet,’” the opera’s librettist, Matthew Jocelyn, says with some defiance in an interview in the Glyndebourne program book, pointing to these overlapping, conflicting source texts. ‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z It purports to be a paean to the great librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, whose work with the composers Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers revolutionized musical theater. Review: ‘Sincerely, Oscar’ Is Some Embarrassing Evening 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Originally, Spoleto proposed that Giddens bring on a librettist, but she soon decided that she could handle the libretto herself; what she needed was another composer as collaborator, one with more knowledge of the orchestra. With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z ‘PROVING UP’ The composer Missy Mazzoli and the librettist Royce Vavrek’s follow-up to their bleakly beautiful “Breaking the Waves” is also gloomy, based on a short story about Nebraska homesteaders after the Civil War. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Others opened, and the new opera, “Cubanacán: A Revolution of Forms,” by an American librettist and a Cuban composer, will have its premiere at the complex on Thursday during the Havana Biennial. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z On one level, he and his librettist, David Harsent, cast Orpheus’ error as part of a marital spat. Review: Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Cure’ and ‘The Corridor,’ Myths With a Twist 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The opera was written by two Americans, Andrew Flack, the librettist, and Paul Fowler, who composed the music. Botched Restoration of Fresco in Spain Inspires a Comic Opera 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Blanchard and librettist Michael Cristofer intend to make revisions for the Met performances, which will be in a revamped version of the original James Robinson production. Met Opera to present Blanchard’s ‘Champion’ in April 2023 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z But though the creators of “Dog Days” — the composer David T. Little and the librettist Royce Vavrek — are deeply associated with the city’s music scene, the piece isn’t exactly coming home. ‘Dog Days’ Is Centerpiece of Prototype Festival 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z In part the blame falls on Verdi and his librettists, who didn’t make it easy to create cohesive, compelling theater out of “Attila.” Music Review: Bernard Uzan, Director, Adds Context to Seattle?s ?Attila? 2012-01-26T22:27:32Z The bride, 29, is a musical theater lyricist and the groom, also 29, is a librettist. Christyn Budzyna, Charles Cohen 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z “We were thinking how can you write about climate change because it’s such a big and anonymous topic,” said librettist Vaiva Grainyté. Operatic day at the beach evokes climate crisis 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z When Jerome Robbins came in to shape and direct the show, they did what composers, lyricists and librettists have always done — they rewrote. 'Fiddler on the Roof's' universal themes still resonate after 50 years 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z The program indicates that “My Coma Dreams” was written and directed by Herschel Garfein, a theater librettist and director who interviewed the three principals and turned their monologues into the text. Music Review: Unconscious Lessons of a Jazzman 2011-05-09T22:19:36Z “Skin,” George Benjamin’s unflinchingly savage second opera with the librettist Martin Crimp, was hailed as a landmark at its premiere at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2012. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Are there no librettists or playwrights who can open a Broadway show? The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The composer asked his librettists for a choral climax to the original first act, a scene that does not feature in Melville's original. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z NÉZET-SÉGUIN Seeing a living composer, a living librettist in the house — interacting with new choreographers, musicians, members of the creative team — is inspiring the works by the dead ones as well. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z In the title role, curiously sidelined by the composer and his librettists for lengthy periods, Jonathan Summers offered dignity and power, though not the charismatic intensity of a freedom fighter. William Tell 2010-05-27T22:45:00Z I read an interview with Toksvig's sister, a librettist, who said she thought Sandi "is basically a happy person, but I don't think she is fulfilled". Sandi Toksvig: 'I don't understand boredom' 2012-08-26T18:00:02Z At first, Spalding hunted for other librettists on Shorter’s behalf, brainstorming poets and writers she thought could match the music. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z I myself am an extremely emerging playwright and opera librettist. Why don't playwrights write theatre reviews? | David Cote 2010-03-30T11:38:00Z The composer wrote "Ghosts" with librettist William Hoffman as a Met commission to mark the organization's 100th anniversary, and it remains his only opera. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The new opera by Ms. León and the librettist Thulani Davis, tentatively titled “The Little Rock Nine,” is very much in that tradition. At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z “We found that for all the media coverage it’s hard to pin down exactly what happened and what she was like,” said Mr. Thomas, the librettist. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z Leonard Bernstein’s opera “A Quiet Place,” written with librettist Stephen Wadsworth, was musically and thematically ahead of its time at its premiere in 1983, and it has been through several revisions since then. The Glimmerglass Festival and ‘A Quiet Place’ Reviews 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z “Singing is the embodiment of inner beauty,” a librettist tells Bergner philosophically. How a Man Defied a Rough Childhood to Rise to Opera Stardom 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recently completed cycle of Mozart’s three operas with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, with the décor — more like installations — by architects and the costumes by fashion designers? Giving a Semi-Hearty Cheer for Semi-Staged Opera 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “It’s quite challenging to be your own librettist,” he said. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Our David Allen will be there to review it, but as a preview, here’s a fascinating chat that the festival did with Birtwistle and the opera’s librettist, director and designer: Classical Music This Week: Joan of Arc, Birtwistle and a Different ‘Barber’ 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “Merrily We Roll Along,” however, requires another librettist to rework Furth’s already heavily revised book — something Sondheim understandably opposes. After another brave attempt, Sondheim-Furth musical 'Merrily We Roll Along' remains a rutted road 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z But in that, librettist Tazewell Thompson, who also directed this production, goes further. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Then there’s the material itself: Mr. Herman’s timeless score, of course, and librettist Michael Stewart’s marvelous distillation of the Wilder play. Well, Hello, Dollys! 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Interviews with the composer and the librettist of “The Source” WikiLeaks at the Opera: What Chelsea Manning-inspired music says about government secrets 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In examining this question, the librettist and lyricist Ryan Cunningham is kind to his intricately flawed characters. Theater Review: For Artists, Growing Up Is Still Hard to Do 2011-06-20T21:56:37Z A composer was already in hand — Kevin Puts, who won the Pulitzer Prize for “Silent Night” in 2012, working here with the librettist Greg Pierce — but the company needed two more stars. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z With Burroughs thrown in the mix, Morrison and Little found their librettist in Anne Waldman, an experimental Beat poet who knew Burroughs. 'David Lynch, the Musical'? Not quite, but close, in 'Artaud in the Black Lodge' 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The music will be written by award-winning composer David Bruce, working with librettist Glyn Maxwell. Pullman novel to become opera 2012-12-11T16:42:42Z First there is the writer in search of a work, in this case the librettist Prosdocimo, whose decision to turn life into art results in the text of the opera we are actually watching. Il Turco in Italia | Opera review 2010-04-04T20:30:00Z In other words, Puccini and his librettists engaged in an act of cultural appropriation. Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Representing the world in art is portrayed by Mr. Benjamin and the librettist, the playwright Martin Crimp, as a complex, empowering, exposing, explosive, inevitably destructive enterprise. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Mr. McNally is an informed opera enthusiast and a working librettist. Tyne Daly as Maria Callas vs. Maria Callas as Herself 2011-07-26T17:01:13Z But then he changed his mind, on condition that it would be a piece not only for students but about them, and that David Pountney would work with him as librettist and stage director. Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z Since he was a child, he wanted to write operas — “probably it was a bit weird,” he said, laughing — but he couldn’t find the right musical language, still less a like-minded librettist. Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In January, the West Wing creator withdrew as the librettist for Houdini, which was due to open next year with Hugh Jackman playing the famous magician. Aaron Sorkin is writing debut Broadway musical 2013-06-24T11:42:04Z On the occasion of Lerner’s centenary, the York Theatre Company is presenting concert stagings of three of the bombs that followed the librettist’s great triumphs, with composer Frederick Loewe. A Restaging of “Lolita, My Love,” the Musical “Too Dark to Live” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In addition to his work as an author, Mr. Hajdu is a songwriter and librettist, and “Love for Sale” is a fine reminder that criticism, when well executed, need not be walled off from fandom. Around Town for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Spooks, she says, encouraged her to develop the discipline to lay out "a theatrical backbone" with the sparest of verbal means: an essential skill for a librettist. Zinnie Harris: Next stop Nam 2011-08-09T20:59:01Z But on Wednesday night, that same team, joined by the librettist Alice Goodman, seemed elated to have arrived at the Met with their path-breaking opera. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z Donizetti, thoroughly uninterested in the details of history, and his librettist, Salvadore Cammarano, made the novel’s political and religious conflicts almost entirely personal. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z "Invisible Cities" was adapted by composer and librettist Christopher Cerrone from the Italo Calvino novel of the same name. The Industry starts label, to hold free concert at Union Station 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z But I wish she and the Met would perform the Mad Scene as Donizetti and his librettist Cammarano wrote it, without the extended cadenza performed here. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z But about 10 years ago, Dean put aside his reservations and began to tackle the play, with Matthew Jocelyn by his side as librettist. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z The librettists were back in Aldeburgh in the summer; now it was Britten who dominated proceedings. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z Before it went to San Francisco, the following year, Wallace and the librettist, Michael Korie, made some revisions, adding arias for the title character, adjusting some orchestrations, and paring down the whole thing. An Opera About Harvey Milk Finally Finds Itself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The American Lyric Theater was founded in 2005 to foster the creation of operas by matching composers to librettists and offering them training and workshops to help them develop new works. Critic’s Notebook: InsightALT, a Festival of Operas in Progress 2013-05-31T21:38:00Z The workshop allows composers and librettists to see how a live audience responds to their work, which will be performed by Industry singers alongside wild Up musicians performing as a 20-piece chamber orchestra. The Industry, wild Up to workshop new operas at 'First Take' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z This time it's the story from Genesis of Jacob wrestling with an Angel, though once again it's the dramatic content rather than its religious significance that interested Birtwistle and his librettist Stephen Plaice. BBC Singers/London Sinfonietta/Atherton ? review 2011-08-22T14:57:59Z The work opens with the murky rumblings of a Prologue, which Honegger and Paul Claudel, the librettist, added in 1944, when France was under Nazi occupation. Music Review: Baltimore Symphony?s ?Joan of Arc,? at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-21T23:30:10Z What set “Salome” apart from almost every opera that preceded it was Strauss’s decision to set the Wilde-Lachmann text word for word, without using a librettist. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Massenet and his librettists softened the bleakness, jiggered the story and tailored the work to the tastes of opéra-comique audiences in Paris for the 1884 premiere. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z Mr. Adès, working with the librettist Meredith Oakes, tweaked and altered the story to his own operatic purposes. New Operas at the Met Prove to Be Rare Breed 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z And make life more difficult for my librettist, he could have added. Soviet spies! Orgies! Trollops! Profumo publication plea perks peers up 2013-07-18T22:57:05Z This might seem a daring project, taking a chance on the first grand opera from a hot composer and librettist team who have worked in more avant-garde circles. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The therapist framing device, which was in Lerner’s first draft but abandoned before Boston, turned up again in the librettist’s later rewrites. An Infamous ‘Lolita’ Musical Gets a Belated New York Debut 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z It may sound like a librettist’s fantasy, but in this case it happens to be more or less true. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z There are no mice, no pumpkins; instead, Massenet and his librettist Henri Cain seek to magnify the human drama in between the lines of Perrault's fairytale. Cendrillon ? review 2011-07-06T18:30:01Z ‘WRITTEN ON SKIN’ The British composer George Benjamin’s tense opera, a collaboration with the librettist Martin Crimp that told the story of a medieval love triangle, was directed by Katie Mitchell. A Calmly Daring Operatic Leader Says Au Revoir 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z “Let’s just say that I don’t know Rufus and I have done anything to dispel the stereotypes about composers and librettists,” Mr. MacIvor said with a laugh. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z To one librettist who was failing to grasp this complexity, he wrote: "In the subjects proposed by you … I do not find all the variety that my crazy brain desires." Maestro Verdi, your Art must not die 2013-05-03T16:00:01Z The engrossing “Buried Alive,” by the gifted young composer Jeff Myers and the librettist Quincy Long, was inspired by Poe’s “The Premature Burial,” about a New York painter haunted by visions of death. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The clever and beautiful text, by librettist and author Paul Griffiths, is constructed solely from the 481 words allotted to Ophelia in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” CD reviews: Breathtaking moments in new song cycle ‘let me tell you’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z San Francisco Opera’s staging of composer Stephen Sondheim and librettist Hugh Wheeler’s “Sweeney Todd” was the only California proposal winning a top grant of $100,000. NEA grants go to musical works about Marilyn Monroe, My Lai massacre 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z He wrote his own text, based on Andersen’s tale; the Gospel According to St. Matthew; and passages by Picander, the librettist of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.” Music Review: The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met 2012-12-24T22:47:20Z Lyricist Ebb died in 2004, but composer Kander and librettist David Thompson saw the musical through, with music ranging from the mournful ballad “Go Back Home” to a number involving an electric chair. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The story was extensively revised by librettist Heather Raffo, a New York playwright of Iraqi descent who was hired to work with Ellis on the piece. World premiere of opera 'Fallujah' in Long Beach may be among former Marine's most difficult missions 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z I have a long relationship with Strauss and Hofmannsthal; there are historical pairings of librettist and composer that have really shockingly presented a woman’s inner life extremely well. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The product of at least four librettists, the story jumps among as many different settings, with yawning narrative gaps in between. 'Manot Lescaut,' at Bavarian State Opera in Munich 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z But van der Aa, an artist of big swings, operates here as composer, librettist and director with the restraint of a confident master. Review: ‘Upload’ Asks Old Questions With New Technology 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Admirers view them as sumptuous realizations of the visions of the composers and librettists, while critics see them as old-fashioned and overly literal. Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Opera Stage Designer, Dies at 88 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The Firework-Maker's Daughter Touring until 1 June Now David Bruce and Glyn Maxwell, composer and librettist, have realised the book's operatic potential in a captivating chamber piece for five singers, two puppeteers and small ensemble. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z The exhibition includes Handel's own working manuscript of the music, which he sent to Jennens who wrote in changes – "an extraordinary thing for a librettist to do", Smith said. Handel House honours Charles Jennens, librettist of Messiah 2012-11-27T17:55:20Z Mr. Livermore points to the genius of the librettist Boito for capturing a full range of human emotion within three hours of opera. An Opera That Travels Through Time 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z He was persuaded by his librettist to make it an opera. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z This double-edged aspect is brilliantly captured by “Flight,” the opera by contemporary composer Jonathan Dove and playwright/librettist April De Angelis that receives its company premiere in Seattle Opera’s new production. How Seattle Opera came to film its newest production at the Museum of Flight 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z After the opening “Scene Zero,” in which we hear Mr. Turnage’s breathless “three-bar overture,” as the librettist dubs its, the chorus of reporters introduce the story by singing sputtered vocal lines in crunchy block chords. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z “Hopscotch” is the brainchild of the opera director Yuval Sharon; more than two hundred people joined him in realizing the concept, including six principal composers and six librettists. Behind the Scenes of the Experimental Opera “Hopscotch” 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Susa, who died in 2013, and his librettist, Philip Littell, dealt with the novel’s epistolary format by devising a series of scenes that shift among different characters and locations. Review: ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ Lush Music of Malice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The carefree complexity with which I as the librettist wove three stories together presents me as the director with intriguing traffic issues. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z The new production by Tim Albery that opened the Canadian Opera Company's season Saturday afternoon isn't set in ancient Egypt as Verdi and his librettists intended. Radvanovksy triumphs in Toronto "Aida" 2010-10-03T15:31:00Z "I didn't want to write a hagiography," explains librettist Williams. Saint and sinner: the Nelson Mandela opera 2012-06-10T16:59:01Z Adès and librettist Tim Cairns, who also directed the production, follow Buñuel’s text closely, though necessarily cutting, since music fills in time. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Webre and librettist Karen Zacarias boiled the story down to scenes with the most emotion and atmosphere, and the Left Bank bars figure heavily. Washington Ballet's The Sun Also Rises invokes the spirit of Ernest Hemingway 2013-06-11T12:59:03Z But he also sees them as loving tributes by a librettist and a composer who knew those conventions in intimate detail. Music Review: Sailing a Saucy Ship Into Bel Canto Seas 2011-06-26T22:09:05Z The bride, 34, is a comedy writer and librettist. A Connection Made at the Talent Agency 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Coincidentally, that show’s lyrics were written by Michael Korie, Gordon’s librettist on “The Grapes of Wrath” and now “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage starting Jan. 27. One Opera Opening Would Make Any Composer Happy. He Has Two. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z More famous as one of Verdi’s librettists, Arrigo Boito also wrote this opera, appearing at the Met for the first time in nearly two decades in a production by Robert Carsen. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z As a teenager, I secretly entertained daydreams of being a lyricist or librettist, disciplines that combine two of my favorite things, language and music. Cultural Studies: The Glee Generation 2010-06-11T19:20:00Z Douglas Pew, the composer, and Dara Weinberg, the librettist, wrote a 20-minute work, “The Game of Hearts,” for the program’s first season. With ‘Penny,’ WNO shows merits of American Opera Initiative 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Mozart and his librettist “don’t preach,” Mr. Brook states in an interview included in the program. Music Review: A Streamlined ?Magic Flute,? Reimagined by Peter Brook 2011-07-07T22:03:44Z In this instance, there is an added cultural clash: a Broadway composer and director find themselves yoked to a British lyricist and librettist under the shaky supervision of an American-Austrian producer. Smash! ? review 2011-04-01T20:30:00Z He was in San Diego with his librettist Terrence McNally for “Great Scott,” but that meant passing up a new production of their first opera, “Dead Man Walking,” the same night in Fresno. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Gilbert And Sullivan: A Motley Pair8pm, Sky Arts 2 A great opening to a five-part series about Britain's greatest librettist/composer duo. Bang Goes the Theory 2010-09-07T23:04:00Z The challenge with taking an old-fashioned approach to opera, as the composer and librettist do in “Jane Eyre,” is that the resulting work invites comparisons with classic masterpieces. Review: When Anaïs Met Circe, and Other Operatic Adventures 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Photograph: Drew Farrell As the librettist for the forthcoming musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, David Greig knows all about the demands of a traditional West End show. Glasgow Girls – review 2012-11-07T17:43:32Z There are different mixtures of composers and librettists, plus the contributions of outliers. 'Hopscotch' moves around L.A. and sometimes transports 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “I felt it was important to have an English-language librettist working with the composer so that story would have the broadest possible audience,” Gelb said. Met Opera, Lincoln Center Theater commission work about detained Ukrainian children 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z In the science fiction opera she created with librettist Ping Chong, survivors from a nuclear holocaust on Earth, or global warming, have relocated somewhere in outer space. Review: Meredith Monk's '80s post-nuclear space opera is startlingly prescient 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Performed at 18th & Union, these operas from contemporary composers and librettists center queer love. 7 Seattle arts events to put on your Pride month calendar 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z This year’s “More Than Friends” comprises new operas highlighting queer love from LGBTQ+ composers and librettists. Frustrated by limited opportunities, 3 Seattle friends started own opera company 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z And his mind meld with his book writers and librettists is just extraordinary. Decoding the genius of Sondheim: Six theater pros explain his mystique 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z By 2011, she and her longtime librettist, Stephen Kitsakos, were collaborating to adapt the book — not knowing yet where or when the full opera would ever be performed. Seattle Opera’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’: How a new opera is born 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In 2015, the Dramatists Guild of America, the national membership association of playwrights, librettists, composers and lyricists, in collaboration with the Lillys, an outlet honoring the work of women in American theater, released The Count. What to know about Seattle’s 2022-23 theater season 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z My latest encounter occurred over the weekend in this Berkshires city and a production of “A Little Night Music,” the Tony-winning romantic farce Sondheim wrote with librettist Hugh Wheeler in the early 1970s. Review | I’d go anywhere right now to see a Sondheim musical 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The chamber opera's librettist David Peimer said he had aimed for something more thoughtful than dramatic. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed love affair told in opera 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z First the busy part: Last week it was announced that Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony have commissioned Geter and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo to produce “Loving vs. Virginia,” an operatic telling of the U.S. Review | ‘An African-American Requiem’ turns national grief into powerful music 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Pacific Opera Project stages the West Coast Premiere of composer Leslie Burrs and librettist Brandon J. Gibson’s opera inspired by the tragic stories of Black Americans’ fatal encounters with police. Six picks for your L.A. weekend: ‘Our Town,’ a timely opera, salsa music and more 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The collaboration’s biggest obstacle, the librettist said, “was the discussions about the emotion of a song. They are used to making a song that’s going to go on an album.” Angélique Kidjo’s new musical theater work comes to the Kennedy Center 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z On March 5, the Washington National Opera gave the premiere of “Written in Stone,” a project of four one-act operas by different composers and librettists, that consider the fraught connotations of our capital’s national monuments. Commentary: Why jazz pianist Jason Moran is dance's most sought-after composer 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z But the best operas emerge organically from the creative obsession of composers, with the inspiration and collaboration of like-minded librettists. Perspective | New one-act operas capture the contradictions and national ambivalence about monuments and memorials 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Each was from either a Black composer or a composer/librettist team from across the country, and each represented an American community grieving victims of race-based violence. Review | Kennedy Center’s ambitious ‘Cartography Project’ makes a strong showing with eight premieres 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z In 1985, Sondheim and librettist James Lapine’s musical “Sunday in the Park With George” was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for drama. Stephen Sondheim, award-winning composer-lyricist, has died 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z While there, Mr. Floyd gave what he believed was the first accredited course taught anywhere on the problems of coordinating music and text in opera to a class consisting of composers and librettists. Carlisle Floyd, celebrated composer of ‘Susannah,’ dies at 95 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z “Birds in the Moon” The Broad Stage and Downtown Santa Monica presents outdoor performances of composer Mark Grey and librettist Júlia Canosa i Serra’s new musical fable about immigration and the search for home. SoCal best bets for Labor Day weekend: John Williams at the Bowl, 'Cinderella' outdoors 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z He serves as a model of a Black artist becoming a leader in theater, said his son Scott, a composer and librettist who was part of the residency’s selection committee. For artists of color, a new residency creates a pipeline to leadership 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z The Santa Monica stage’s partnerships include a diverse mix of performers, directors, choreographers, composers, librettists and arts venues. The Broad Stage touts projects with Kidjo, Shorter, Spalding and Gehry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z As a budding teenage composer-lyricist in the 1940s, Sondheim had been mentored by close family friend Oscar Hammerstein II, the renowned lyricist and librettist for “Oklahoma!,” Stephen Sondheim, award-winning composer-lyricist, has died 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Joy Dana Sundgaard was born in Madison, Wis., on Aug. 6, 1930, and grew up in New Haven, Conn. Her father, Arnold, was a lyricist, librettist and playwright who wrote for opera and Broadway productions. Joy Kaiser, whose philanthropy helped address injustices in South African health care, dies at 90 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z To this day, he teaches a course at Stanford in Greek poetry and moonlights as an opera librettist. A top scientist questioned virus lockdowns on Fox News. The backlash was fierce. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Over the past weekend, Houston Grand Opera streamed a likable diversion, “Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera,” by composer David T. Little and librettist Royce Vavrek, which took one’s mind off the things for an hour. Review: In a fantastic 'Covid fan Tutte,' Salonen ushers Mozart into the age of coronavirus 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Melodic Bavarians bound for Munich meet a bickering librettist and a prima donna. Movies on TV this week: 'Terms of Endearment' and more 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z In this impassioned, jazz-infused opera, Mr. Davis, 69, and the librettist Richard Wesley tell the story of the black teenagers wrongfully convicted of the brutal 1989 assault of a white woman in New York. Pulitzer Prize: 2020 Winners List 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Terrence McNally, whose long, varied and prolific career as a playwright, musical librettist and screenwriter earned him four Tony Awards and an Emmy died Tuesday. Terrence McNally, the playwright who wrote life-affirming and popular scripts, has died 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Ruhl is credited as librettist, but the composer worked with her to cull the text by about 40%, effectively removing unnecessarily explanatory passages. Review: At L.A. Opera, Matthew Aucoin's 'Eurydice' almost has it all 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z With the help of local performers, a group of eight area composers and librettists will present fresh creations at the Brookland bar. The best things to see, drink and do in the D.C. area in February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Thanks to the show’s success, Jones was able to diversify into working as a writer, poet, librettist, film director, comedian, actor and historian. Terry Jones obituary 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Written in the late 1940s by Stravinsky and his British librettist, W.H. Review: Stravinsky's exceedingly slow ‘Rake's Progress’ from West Hollywood to Ojai 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z He was, in fact, a keenly musical man who acted as a full-time artistic administrator, attending to composers, librettists, singers, and budgets as if there were nothing more important to occupy his time. Antonio Salieri’s Revenge 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Composers, librettists, singers, cast and crew are expected to get it right opening night. Review: ‘Girls of the Golden West’ gets an Amsterdam remake, more powerful and profound 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Forster’s “Howard’s End” is receiving the opera treatment at Z Space in San Francisco courtesy of composer Allen Shearer and librettist Claudia Stevens. Essential Arts: Frank Gehry is turning 90 — but he's still got work to do 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Based on librettist Sarah Ruhl’s play by the same name, “Eurydice” reimagines the story of Orpheus through the eyes of the myth’s heroine. L.A. Opera's 2019-20 season brings Kosky's new 'Bohème,' Aucoin's 'Eurydice' and Du Yun 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Debussy, facing the gnomic text of “Pelléas,” made the radical decision to set it line by line, without recourse to a versifying librettist. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Benjamin had been looking to work with a librettist for years, despite his doubts about the viability of the operatic form. How the Composer George Benjamin Finally Found His Voice 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The chorus refused to sing, the police were called and the librettist was arrested in the melee. Four radical and radically original pieces of music that blew up the modernist status quo in 1968 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z The librettist, the composer, the director are all men … Why aren't women allowed to write their own stories? The sound of mega orgasms: the female composers taking music into intimate places 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Berry was the great librettist of the first era of teenage music. Chuck Berry: the rock'n'roller who wrote the soundtrack for teen rebellion 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Vavrek has been a successful librettist in the opera world, and the sense of worlds colliding echoes through this show. Review | ‘Midwestern Gothic’ musical: There’s a quite creepy gaze on the meadow 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Waters joined the team, serving as librettist for the new piece, with music written by Bilodeau. Roger Waters: 'War isn’t about ideology, it’s not about religion. It’s about money' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z They were librettists, lyricists and screenwriters for a host of Broadway and Hollywood musicals, including “On the Town,” “Good News,” “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Two on the Aisle” and “ The Band Wagon.” These two people were more than funny 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “The librettist is a man, the composer is a man, the director was a man. Why aren’t women allowed to write their own stories?” The sound of mega orgasms: the female composers taking music into intimate places 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Mackintosh, a leading British theatre impresario, is to make his objection felt in a joint statement with Alain Boublil, the musical’s librettist and others who own the copyright. Donald Trump upsets Les Misérables creators by playing song at rally 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Most anticipated in the 2017 season is the world premiere of “the Revolution of Steve Jobs,” by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. Santa Fe Opera announced 2017 season 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The opera foreshadows the assassination but does not directly deal with the event, composer Little and librettist Royce Vavrek said in a joint statement. JFK subject of Texas opera, with singing Jack and Jackie 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Having begun to work on a story of ill-fated lovers and gang violence, Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and the librettist Arthur Laurents. William Shakespeare: a quintessentially American author 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Six principal composers, six librettists, and a production team of nearly a hundred have collaborated on the project, which has a budget of about a million dollars. Creating an Opera as Big as Los Angeles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z She has written historical fiction, like the Booker-winning The Blind Assassin; she is also a poet, essayist, children’s author, librettist and inventor. Margaret Atwood webchat – follow it live 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Nor is there any "real sense", wrote Andrew Clements, of the "sheer chaotic terror" of the events of 9 September 2001 dramatised by composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake. 9/11 opera Between Worlds has 'awesome power' 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z She is now married to Mr. Boublil, the librettist and lyricist. Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg music celebration by National Symphony Orchestra Pops 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z “For me, it’s a story of faith,” said Andrew Flack, the opera’s librettist who traveled to Borja for research on the production, which is still in the works. A Town, if Not a Painting, Is Restored 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z “First, to be able to work here and tonight, to be on stage at the Dorothy Chandler doing my play -- that was thrilling,” said playwright, librettist and screenwriter David Henry Hwang. Arts in L.A. celebrated at Los Angeles Music Center 50th anniversary 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z She has written historical fiction, like the Booker-winning The Blind Assassin; she is also a poet, essayist, children’s author, librettist and inventor. Margaret Atwood webchat – follow it live 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z A speaker also condemned Alice Goodman, the opera’s librettist, who in 2012 told the Guardian that creating the show ended her career. Protests at New York’s Lincoln Center over The Death of Klinghoffer opera 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Monday’s playbill will also feature a statement by the sisters, who said they were not consulted by the composer or librettist in the development of the opera. Met rejects antisemitism claims and says it won't bow to Klinghoffer protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z After being approached by composer/librettist Todd Almond and director Kevin Newbury, she was immediately drawn to Kansas City Choir Boy’s “concept”, as well as the music. Courtney Love to make her opera debut in New York 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The Weisslers met cute enough to warm the laptop of a Broadway librettist. Broadway’s Barry and Fran Weissler on Central Park West 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z In operas and musical theater, a composer writes the music and a librettist writes the words. Bethesda boy stars in “The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me” opera at the Kennedy Center 2013-12-09T22:48:45Z After two years of revision, “Little Miss Sunshine,” by Mr. Finn and the librettist James Lapine, will open off Broadway this fall at Second Stage. | William Finn: Making the Rounds at Boxing and Brunch 2013-08-23T21:01:21Z He went on to an exuberantly varied theatrical career as a librettist, playwright, director and impresario. Isaiah Sheffer, 76, a Founder of Symphony Space, Dies 2012-11-11T05:07:36Z Dale Wasserman, the musical’s librettist, ingeniously frames the story at a time when Cervantes ran afoul of the Catholic authorities and was hurled into prison to await interrogation by the Inquisition. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Man of La Mancha’ at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater 2012-11-10T20:04:17Z He lives with his wife, Judy Lane, a librettist he met at an artists’ colony 21 years ago. For Daniel Hauben, ‘Bruegel of the Bronx,’ Thrilling Exposure in an Art Commission 2012-09-29T17:25:27Z It feels as if composer and librettist had decided the unfortunate pair was somehow incidental to the exposition. Terrorists Push Elderly Jew Overboard in ‘Klinghoffer’: Review 2012-02-28T15:36:57Z In 1785 the latter received an appointment as conductor of the orchestra at the theatre of Schikaneder, the friend of Mozart and the librettist of the Magic Flute. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The young librettist Sterbini was considered quite as impertinent in his way as his musical associate. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z After the appearance of The Gondoliers a coolness occurred between the composer and librettist, owing to Gilbert’s considering that Sullivan had not supported him in a business disagreement with D’Oyly Carte. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z His survivors include his wife, Victoria Hardie, a librettist and playwright; and three children. Michael Hastings, British Playwright, Dies at 73 2011-11-29T04:09:35Z The work of the composer, the dramatist, and the librettist belongs to the past, however, and that audience of five thousand people did not bestow much thought on them. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z But, then, we must remember that librettists the world over are apparently men of an inferior quality of intellect who know little about music or singing. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Rossini's librettist kept him, nevertheless, a little too much in the back ground, while Roderigo, on the other hand, is too much brought forward. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z The late vicar of Bremhill did these metrical paraphrases of the Latin which led so tragically, but whose qualities, as verse, resemble the average of the ordinary Pantomime librettist. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z Moreover he, in consultation with his librettist, achieved great skill in holding together entire scenes, or even entire acts, by dramatically apposite repetitions of short arias and choruses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Leoncavallo, the composer and librettist, has since written another opera, "I Medici," which has found favor in Europe, but is still unheard in America. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Certainly the librettists of Gounod's opera have shown but scant regard for Goethe's intentions, but they have at any rate concocted a story with a well-regulated and dramatically logical plot. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Even the opera, which liked the larger framework of five acts when Scribe was writing librettos for Hal�vy and Meyerbeer, is now content with only three, since Wagner revealed his skill as a librettist. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z With Boito as librettist, what a work Verdi might have turned out in his golden old age! Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z He had a considerable reputation as a song-writer and as a librettist in opera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z After Dumas comes the librettist who transposed the story into suitable Italian verse to be set to music. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z In 1822 he had associated himself with Scribe as librettist, and other operas now followed in quick succession. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis His librettist would have it that gondoliers never sang Dante, but he would not give in. Fragments of an Autobiography The composer and librettist, however, soon quarrelled, and the opera scheme lay dormant for some time. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z He was very fond of music, though he could never reconcile himself to have his dramas appropriated by the librettists, and gave his consent but very reluctantly. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The King angrily interposes in the next number, “Enough of Spring and Pleasure,” whereupon the harper sings a beautiful ballad interpolated by the librettist. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers He, too, had come in for some of the applause, a sort of inverted glory which like a frosty nimbus envelopes the head of the librettist. Melomaniacs In operatic work the librettist and composer must work hand in hand. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 The third act has a somewhat longer orchestral prelude than the first two, but the librettist gets to work very swiftly none the less. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z We can imagine a pre-Wagner composer telling his librettist, "Now, mind you arrange that in certain parts the words will allow me to put in arias or choruses." War Letters of a Public-School Boy "We are principled against it in all cases where we feel sure of losing; though in this case we could never settle it, for both composer and librettist are dead." Imaginary Interviews Of its immense success widow and librettist were in no doubt. Melomaniacs The Marquis Saint-Georges—the librettist of the day—asked Flotow to undertake the music of one act only, as the other two had already been assigned to two different composers. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces According to Coppa, his librettist, he wrote the opera in "forty hours less than ten days." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The critics admitted that she saved the “piece” in spite of composer and librettist. What's-His-Name When the day is fine and the fair field has a background of wooded hills, you see where the librettists of pre-Wagnerian days went for their stage effects. Home Life in Germany He was a little put out, too, by librettists interlarding Holy Writ with their own "copy." Cardinal Newman as a Musician Harry B. Smith we have always with us: he is the Sarah Bernhardt of librettists. The Merry-Go-Round The librettist has taken the elements of his dramatic poem from Shakespeare's play, but has, owing to musical exigencies, very much cut down the work. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z But he did not find his true direction until he declined—or should we rather say, until he rose?—into the librettist for the operas of Lulli. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. In the duet between Christ and Mary, seeking where they have laid her Son, the librettist has given Christ a versified paraphrase which is questionable both as to taste and grammar. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions A lighthouse would be a swell place to stow away a leading librettist dressed up in a fool's costume, wouldn't it? Torchy and Vee New York was full of librettists who would have done the work equally well for half the money, but, like most managers, Mr. Goble had the mental processes of a sheep. Jill the Reckless In the last act the librettist introduces a new character who sings a barcarolle to Dante's celebrated words, "Nessun maggior do lore." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Why, I said to them, should I leave this beautiful city to throw myself into the arms of a mad librettist, who desires my blood simply because he cannot write? The Way of Ambition In several other letters we become familiar with some of his plans which were never executed, owing, apparently, to the shortcomings of the librettists. Chopin and Other Musical Essays The opera of "Faniska" is based on a Polish legend of great dramatic beauty, which, however, was not very artistically treated by the librettist. Great Italian and French Composers It had long been Titterby's belief that a great future lay before the librettist who should produce topical light operas on the Gilbert and Sullivan model, dealing with our present-day economic crises. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 The librettist does not attempt to adapt Shakespeare's tragedy, but is content to take enough plot and situations for a conventional Italian libretto, and he succeeds in doing this very well. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Sometimes the tradition attached to a work differs from what the composer and librettist intended. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s The convenient veering of the wind need not be taken as forced on the stage manager by the librettist, for Daland foretells it at the very beginning of the act. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The duration and climax of Auber's musical career were founded on his friendship and, artistic alliance with Scribe, one of the most fertile librettists and playwrights of modern times. Great Italian and French Composers Jean has an ardent disciple in Salome, a young lady whose position in Ethiopian society is not very clearly defined by the librettist, though in the end she turns out to be Hesatoade's long-lost daughter. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. I don't think Rouget de Lisle, the librettist, better known as the poet and composer of the "Marseillaise," ought to have done this. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Handel's librettist, whoever he was, did his work downright badly. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians The librettist now having need of his services for the finale, Daland enters, and the act winds up with a showy trio. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas My librettist would have it that gondoliers never sang Dante, and but rarely Tasso, but I answered him, 'I know all about that better than you, for I have lived in Venice and you haven't. Great Italian and French Composers He appears to have had little ambition, and was content throughout his career to fit his saccharine melodies to whatever words the librettists of the day chose to supply. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. The librettist does not stick too closely to Shakespeare's story; in fact, he gives Duncan a daughter, the Moina just mentioned, and introduces the Sleep-walking scene before Duncan's death. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The librettist used the same subject which M. Scribe had adopted for Auber's opera, "Gustavus III.," and the opera was at first called by the same name,—"Gustavo III." The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers The final scene could not be made very lengthy; so the composer determined to pad out the act with pure irrelevant music, and the librettist had to find him words. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The manager was at his Avit's end, till Tottola, the librettist, suggested a prayer for the Israelites before and after the passage of the host through the cleft waters. Great Italian and French Composers The French librettist did not treat the episode cleverly, and indeed all the last scene is terribly prosaic, and lacking in poetical atmosphere. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. With the exception of the enlargement of Master Fenton's part, Nicolai's librettist sticks closely to Shakespeare's text; but there are occasional excrescences, mostly harmless. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The stirring episodes during the journey and the visit spring from the librettist's imagination. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers The librettist is inexorable: the stage is wanted for some one else; and the watchman's song merely acts as a soporific, and at last the poor fellow snores. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Paer had designed to have written the music himself, but his librettist slyly turned over the poem to Rossini, who produced one of his masterpieces in setting it. Great Italian and French Composers The duel scene is vigorous and effective, and the song allotted to Romeo's page—an impertinent insertion of the librettists—is intrinsically delightful. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Carr� fils is the son of the well-known librettist of Faust and Romeo fame, and Choudens is connected with Choudens Fils, who publish this opera; but concerning the composer, Grove and Riemann are silent. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The spectacle was concluded by a piece written by Eugene Scribe, the famous French librettist, in celebration of the founding of the Museum. The Story of Versailles The melody of Mr. CHEVALIER's "Coster's Serenade," of which, I rather think, he is the composer as well as librettist, is as charming as it is strikingly original. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 Scribe and Delavigne, the librettists, and Meyerbeer, devoted busy days and nights to hurrying on the work. Great Italian and French Composers The Margaret of Gounod and his librettist is not a real person, but a sort of keepsake beauty who sings keepsake music. Evelyn Innes No finer opening for an opera has ever been devised, and it is remarkable how the composer and librettist have managed to sustain this high level right through the four acts of the work. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Associated word: librettist. wordy, a. diffuse, prolix, verbose, redundant, pleonastic. Putnam's Word Book "I can't put him in simply as Sir Brian," said the puzzled Composer, "unless I make him an Irishman, and I don't think my librettist will consent to take this liberty with SCOTT's novel." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 While as for Morenita and Diaz, the mere idea of these golden stars waiting on me, the librettist, effacing themselves, rendering themselves subordinate at such a moment, was fantastic. Sacred and Profane Love It may be mentioned that Handel's early librettist in London, Nicolo Haym, must have been a Jew, to judge from his name. Handel The librettist, Emil Taubert, does not adhere any too closely to the original, so I will just describe the most effective numbers. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z So, do not grudge the librettist his thousand a week or whatever it is. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories I wish you had known him," he said; "he was the greatest librettist who ever existed. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters Kind, the librettist, wrote night and day for ten days, and Carl, in great enthusiasm, forwarded the libretto for Caroline's opinion. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 New York was full of librettists who would have done the work equally well for half the money, but, like most managers, Mr Goble had the mental processes of a sheep. The Little Warrior He trusted in his librettist and was justified in his trust. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The likeness to "Carmen" is accidental, after all, though Bizet's opera was not without influence upon the work of librettists and composer. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time He, too, liked the idea of the opera, and the librettists went to work. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music This seemed outrageous mutilation at first to the composer, and the librettist took it with still more violence; threatening for a time to withdraw his book completely. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 I appealed to several librettists, but none was willing to undertake the work without a guarantee of recompense. A Second Book of Operas It was a brave attempt of Sir Charles Stanford, but he was beaten by his librettist every time. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Mascagni and his librettist do not seem to have been able to find a term with which to define their creation. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time As was his custom, he drafted a plan of the work, and this he sent to Piave, who for a long time had been his librettist in ordinary. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Rinuccini was the first of a long and usually incompetent lineage of librettists. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 Pursuing the search chronologically, the librettists next came upon Cain and Abel, who offered a more fruitful subject for dramatic and musical invention. A Second Book of Operas One could have done with a little more Shakespeare and less of Christopher Smith's own librettist; but it contains much charming music, some of which would sound very fresh if revived now. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Here are poetry and beauty; but not matter for three-quarters of an hour of a rambling musical dialogue, such as the librettists and composer of "Cavalleria Rusticana" have strained and tortured it into. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Goethe's scene at the fountain becomes, in the hands of the French librettists, a scene in the chamber of Marguerite. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music You must have noticed, then, the musical abuse of the word felichitta lavished by the librettist and the chorus at the time every one is rushing from his box or leaving his stall. Women in the Life of Balzac "Light is the language of the eternal ones—hear it!" proclaims the librettist of "Iris" in that portion of his book which is neither said nor sung nor played. A Second Book of Operas Such scruples as distressed the Germans never trouble French librettists, and the characters which Carré and Barbier found in Goethe's romance are as if born for the stage. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Naturally he has followed his librettist in aiming at contrast, at higgledy-piggledy finales, at garish orchestration, at strenuous declamation in the dialogue not cast in melodic forms and at abrupt changes. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Even Gioconda, a character that has latent within it many effective elements, is sacrificed by the librettist to the one end—sensational effect through contrast and contradiction. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time |
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