| 单词 | libretto |
| 例句 | What’s more, he wrote the libretto as well as the music, and drew up the specifications of the purpose- built theatre at Bayreuth in which it was to be performed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The offending piece was Theodora, a setting of a libretto by his friend Thomas Morell, which itself was based on an account of the early Christian martyr by Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There's the sure implication, in Eric Crozier's libretto, that Albert has a sexual encounter – possibly one he pays for. Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z Her libretto is poetic, poignant, sometimes grimly funny, always dramatically effective. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The giants who, in the libretto, have been conned into constructing the lair are here chic architects of a glassy expansion. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z There is still much in the libretto that resonates. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z I question only one directorial intervention: The shooter, a student at the school, is eventually shown onstage, played by a silent actor, even though he is not in the libretto. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Tchaikovsky not only wrote the music, but adapted his own libretto from Pushkin’s 1833 novel, a lyrical examination of love’s cross-purposes among the Russian gentry. Seattle Opera’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ is fine but could offer so much more 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It lags, particularly in the first act, and the libretto can be risibly purple: “the oatmeal slippers of sleep,” “the quietus of your thighs.” Music Review: Britten’s ‘Rape of Lucretia,’ Presented by Mannes Opera 2013-05-12T21:58:05Z As would be the case with many of his operas, the libretto was stale, but Rossini’s music sparkled. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z Never did Mr. Stone’s direction conflict with the libretto; his staging was smoothly effective, as balanced as Mr. Petrenko’s conducting. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Mechem’s libretto is bright and witty, especially in the high-flown errors he concocts for Mrs. Malaprop, that marvelous Sheridan character whose name became synonymous with linguistic blunders. Opera Review: Bronx Opera Company’s ‘The Rivals’ at the Lovinger Theater 2014-01-13T19:15:13Z The Canadian mezzo-soprano Layla Claire, in the role of Venus, spent so much time walking around her house while practicing rapid Italian phrases that her two young daughters started repeating fragments of the libretto. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z When he was asked to write the libretto of “Blue,” Tazewell Thompson reflected on the talks many black parents have with their children about how to safely survive encounters with the police. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But it does contain that duet, and so companies feel obliged to put the work on stage every so often, regardless of its cringingly awful libretto, cardboard-thin characters and scarcely credible plot. The Pearl Fishers 2010-06-02T20:30:00Z That may be rational, but it's also dramatically reductive, erasing the teasing ambiguities of Henry James's novella and Myfanwy Piper's libretto, and putting only a rather banal case-study of Victorian female hysteria in their place. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z Plans are already underway to translate the libretto into the classical Chinese in which the novel was originally written. An American Opera Company Adapts China’s ‘War and Peace’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z On Thursday at Here, the Prototype festival presented the premiere of “Mata Hari,” an opera by the composer Matt Marks, with a libretto by Paul Peers, who also directed the show. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s a daring move; the libretto isn’t one that American audiences are familiar with. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z The first symphony would have been what preceded the long prologue to the opera, the text of which appears in the libretto but the music for which has been lost. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “The music, the libretto, the strength of the song just before the intermission — it’s all more American in its composition,” said Mr. Chollat, wearing a “Hamilton” T-shirt at a rehearsal this summer. With ‘Oliver Twist,’ a French Musical Aims Higher 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z In the libretto Radames is punished by being sealed alive in a tomb, where, in the final moments of the opera, he discovers Aida hidden: she has chosen to join him in death. Music Review: At Glimmerglass, ‘Aida,’ ‘Armide’ and ‘Lost in the Stars’ 2012-08-06T22:15:41Z There are, in general, three ways that opera buffs typically encounter English versions of European-language librettos from earlier eras, which were mostly written in verse. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z Based on David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West, the libretto is only mildly mawkish and the orchestral writing, starting with a shocking splayed orchestral chord, is among Puccini's most impassioned. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Today, there are several working versions, Mr. Pollack said, and they have restored some of Latouche’s contributions to the libretto. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z For those of us whose German leaves something to be desired, the omission of that dialogue from the printed libretto is a bit of a disadvantage, too. Humperdinck: Dornr?schen ? review 2011-02-17T22:20:01Z The opera, with music by Victoria Bond and libretto by Susan L. Roth, explains the wondrous events of Hanukkah through characters that include a singing dog, a toy bear and of course children. Spare Times: For Children for Dec. 16-22 2011-12-15T22:30:10Z Its composer was Italian, its plot is based on a German play, and its libretto is in French. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z On that recording and in her current run of performances, she deviates from Tchaikovsky’s original libretto in a scene in which Vaudémont reveals her handicap to her. Mariusz Trelinski Brings ‘Iolanta’ and ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ to the Met 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z With an Italian libretto adapted from a German play, the story begins in a mysterious meadow: fairy territory that will be familiar to audiences who have recently seen Dvorak’s “Rusalka” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: Diving Into the Lake for a Respighi Rarity at City Opera 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Like “Skin,” “Lessons” has a dense, historically contrived libretto, offering a callous plot that hacks away at any sentimentality you might have left about power or love. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z When I first wrote librettos, that influenced the way I wrote poems. Paul Muldoon: a life in poetry 2013-03-31T05:59:01Z One, the libretto; two, the music; three, the direction. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z The women of Senta’s village twirl these to suggest their weaving — instead of using spinning wheels as indicated in the libretto. Met opera gets visionary new “Dutchman” 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z In addition to poetry, she has written essays, criticism and libretti. Fall literary preview: 6 terrific L.A. events 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z But the revision remained imperfect, due largely to Harrison’s unwillingness to trim Gordon’s libretto. Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Adams and Sellars assembled the libretto for “Atomic” from found texts. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Setting the German composer’s 1905 opera in today’s war-torn Middle East allowed it to unfold with a sense of modern history echoing writer Oscar Wilde’s fantastical play upon which Strauss based his libretto. Virginia Opera presents ‘Salome,’ a tour de force etched in love and death 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Leonard Bernstein's score still thrills, and Stephen Sondheim's libretto offers laughs in the likes of Gee, Officer Krupke. Commission us: a library of kids' films 2010-10-11T13:50:00Z The ghost, who in the libretto physically appears only in passing, is now a recurring, forlorn specter. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z There are quirky touches — plastic water bottles abound — yet the production is at its core loyal to Wagner’s libretto and music. Music Review: A ‘Ring’ Fit for a Time of Austerity 2012-07-17T12:00:00Z I bought a CD and read the libretto. Penny Woolcock ? runaway success 2010-06-07T21:01:00Z The clever libretto by Matt Boresi adapts the true story of an 18th-century viola left on a sidewalk by the principal violist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. UrbanArias’s ‘Blue Viola’ makes for a somewhat intriguing night at the opera 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z He said his libretto was about the concept of prejudice. Police drummer, Monty Python comic turn to opera 2011-04-05T15:44:40Z The kaleidoscopic colors of Ms. Chin’s score, with a brilliantly enigmatic libretto by the playwright David Henry Hwang, stood out all the more starkly against these relatively restrained surroundings. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z “This is terrific music and a great libretto, but the subject matter is just too explosive” for American audiences, he said. Revival of ‘Anna Nicole’ Opera Comes to London 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z This began with the Gordon’s original libretto, which was long on narrative and just plain long. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z The libretto reads better on the page than it functions on stage, though opera lovers will enjoy the challenge of identifying its myriad references. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z What’s more, Wagner’s libretto is a work of literature, as witness a majestic bilingual edition available this fall from the Folio Society. Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Still, Handel’s opera, with an English libretto by William Congreve, can be seen as a cautionary tale of using sex to gain power and explores the mingling of desire and ambition. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z But in the libretto, it says, ‘I hear the noise of the tortured people.’ An Opera Screams for Human Dignity 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Virgil Thomson’s opera, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein, is rarely performed. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The opera libretto is Carroll’s text condensed and fractured. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z This year’s highlights include the composer Stefan Weisman’s chamber opera “The Scarlet Ibis,” with a libretto by David Cote, at Here in the South Village. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z So applying “Star Trek” camp to the opera for a new English-language libretto proved easy. Captain Kirk, Klingons and an aria: How the Pacific Opera Project remade Mozart, 'Star Trek'-style 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Honegger persuaded the French writer and diplomat Paul Claudel to provide a libretto. Review: In ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Beasts With Burden of Judging 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Between 100 to 150 Yale students enroll each semester in the courses, which encompass musical-theater composing, history, and lyric and libretto writing. For one lucky college senior, graduating will mean seeing their musical at Signature 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Tesori’s strong yet subtle score is combined with Mr. Thompson’s grimly elegant and snappy words — one of the best librettos I’ve heard in a long while. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Based on an Italian folk tale, the libretto was by Mark Campbell, although his way with words became grating after awhile. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Are the final lines of the libretto, “Whether we succeed or not/ is up to the people,” intended as a sting to the ruling party? ‘Dr. Sun Yat-sen’ in the American Premiere at Santa Fe Opera 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The new Met at Lincoln Center opened in September 1966 with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s version of “Antony and Cleopatra” with a libretto by Franco Zeffirelli, an opera greeted with negative reviews. San Francisco Opera will debut Adams’ ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z When you have singers who can do this, the show’s concept finally makes sense: all three of Hoffmann’s loves are indeed the same woman, as the libretto says. ‘Tales of Hoffmann’: Speight Jenkins goes out on a high note 2014-05-05T16:26:58Z In writing his own librettos Stockhausen invented a mythology drawing on multiple cultural traditions, from Japanese Noh theater to German folklore. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z “I didn’t even know the libretto went first. I thought maybe the music came first.” Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Each inspired turn in the music is countered by Rudy Wurlitzer’s stodgy libretto. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z Typically rooted in mythology, the librettos of “tragédies en musique” were crucial; the name of the genre emphasizes the texts as much as the sounds. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The meditative yet dramatic work has a score by Anthony Davis to a scenario by his younger brother, Christopher Davis, and a libretto by their cousin Thulani Davis. The Family That Turned Malcolm X’s Life Into Opera 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z That the play was excellent to begin with was no guarantee of a viable libretto. Review: In ‘Intimate Apparel,’ Letting the Seamstress Sing 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Bartok’s opera has a Hungarian libretto while Mr. Eotvos’s, true to its source, employs an Italian one, adapted by Mari Mezei. Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z These no-frills albums, without printed librettos, are a reminder of the days when major companies maintained budget labels. Met?s Archive Yields Past Treasures 2011-03-25T14:26:04Z But by and large, the libretto accomplishes a similar feat as Blanchard’s score: intense intimacy on a grand scale. Review | With debut of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z His musico-dramatic genius would prevail in fashioning a new version of the libretto that formed the basis of the opera's text as composed. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z So it added new sections in Michif, the Métis language, to a 50-year-old libretto that was already in English, French and Cree. Blind Listening: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z As the woman suffers, Sellars's libretto describes the pain of giving birth. Director Peter Sellars - shocking again in new Adams opera 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z She not only wrote for both the theatre and the screen but also wrote the libretto for an opera, The Descent of Inanna. Lyn Gambles obituary 2012-08-09T17:28:58Z For the second, Seattle Rock Orchestra musical director and bassist Scott Teske composed a song cycle based on the poets' collective libretto: a sort of end-of-the-world opera. Seattle artists imagine the apocalypse, set to music and poetry 2012-03-28T19:56:08Z But Anderson, who spent three years composing his opera based on a libretto by Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, says producing one today is a much bigger deal than it was in Mozart's time. A Minute With: Composer Julian Anderson about his opera "Thebans" 2014-04-30T17:51:16Z Auden and Chester Kallman to write the libretto, he asked for “a small group of characters, rather like the one in ‘Così fan tutte,”’ and was richly rewarded with characters stuffed with personality. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z Thompson’s libretto leaves the players nameless — the Father, the Mother, the Son — and the effect is the sense that any black Americans could find themselves cast. ‘Blue’ is the opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can’t 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The libretto, devised by Stravinsky with Nicholas Roerich, the ballet’s set and costume designer, was printed in the program for the original performance, in 1913, and what it says didn’t just control Nijinsky’s ballet. Mark Morris’s Dark Spring 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z D.C. poet Essex Hemphill, whose words on candidly homosexual subjects are also quoted at length in the libretto, made just such a criticism of these problematic photographs some 30 years ago. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z They had updated the look of the opera with costumes and sets partly inspired by anime, scrubbed the libretto of historical inaccuracies and recast much of the work as a video-game fantasy. Reimagining ‘Madame Butterfly,’ With Asian Creators at the Helm 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z The libretto, by Candace Chong, had received official approval, and Mr. Huang’s colorful, eclectic style is known in China, so he was blindsided when the Beijing production was scrapped at the 11th hour last year. Music Review: Huang Ruo?s ?Dr. Sun Yat-Sen? at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2012-01-12T23:44:28Z One of Verdi’s greatest works is best known in its Italian translation as “Don Carlo,” but he originally wrote the opera’s music to a French libretto, “Don Carlos.” Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The libretto is clunky, rather pleased with its own cleverness and takes most of the first act to exert a dramatic grip. Elegy for Young Lovers 2010-04-25T21:05:00Z For Schwarz, picking up on the magic apples the libretto says the gods require to retain their freshness, it is youth, innocence, children. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z In fact, when he lived there he used part of the ground floor to sell copies of his music, librettos, and tickets to his performances: Italian operas, English oratorios and whatever. ArtsBeat: Anna Nicole, Jimi Hendrix and Handel in London 2011-02-15T18:00:32Z Prestini’s vivid tableaux, fashioned from Mark Campbell’s concise libretto, don’t necessarily proffer catchy melodies. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The project began when Turroni, 59, a writer and former tenor, approached Sciarrino with a draft libretto based on a version of the Venus and Adonis myth by the Italian Baroque poet Giambattista Marino. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The work, which has a libretto by Alice Goodman, skirts the line between opera and oratorio, and is famous for its choruses of exiled Palestinians and exiled Jews. ‘Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Petit’s fable, based on a libretto by the playwright Jean Anouilh, contrasted the gentleness of the beast with the prejudice of a society that kills those who upset established order. Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Los Angeles author Kim Cooper discovered an unpublished comic libretto written by Chandler in the Library of Congress, Sarah Weinman writes at the Guardian. Unpublished Raymond Chandler work discovered 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z The decision not to tackle the opera's racist undertow, however, and to rewrite the libretto to omit all reference to the fact that Monostatos is meant to be black, remains a mistake. Die Zauberflöte – review 2013-04-17T13:36:34Z The Crossing,” by the prodigiously talented composer Matthew Aucoin, who also wrote the libretto, tells of Walt Whitman’s volunteer work treating wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The first part of the libretto is made up of a collage of his own writings and others’, such as a breakup letter mixed in with fragments of James Baldwin. Review: In ‘Place,’ a Composer Questions His Comfort, and Power 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Opera librettos are not normally thought to be good for silent reading. She Gave Words to Opera’s Nixon 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z His orchestra is a restless character in the nonstop drama, while the vocal lines have the directness of Debussy or Janacek, rendering the libretto clearly enough to follow without titles. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z “Dog Days,” a black comedy with music by David T. Little and libretto by Royce Vavrek, was dramatically wild and at times exhilarating, a post-apocalyptic story about a family of five. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z They got to work, debating in texts and emails whether a part of Mr. Morris’s libretto should rhyme. An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z A snazzy contemporary setting replaces the opera’s original 18th-century one, but the production is otherwise largely faithful to the libretto. Review: A ‘Rake’s Progress’ for a Fame-Hungry Internet Age 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Because the libretto comprises only words from the Bhagavad Gita, it is up to the director how much, if any, of the biographical material to reveal to the audience — and how. Two Ways of Looking at Philip Glass’s ‘Satyagraha’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z There’s nothing notably Mozartian about this piece: It’s music of today that speaks in a contemporary language, with a sharp English libretto by the playwright Martin Crimp. A George Benjamin Exacting Storm in Opera Comes to Mostly Mozart 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Many writers patronize the practice of rendering librettos into English translations. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z The libretto, despite jarring shifts from slangy Southern dialect to grandly philosophical observations, is basically sound until the final, salvation-denying rant and heavy-handed execution scene. Music Review: ‘The Martyrs,’ at the Dicapo Opera Theater 2012-11-13T23:53:31Z He was referring to the premiere, the night before, of Balanchine’s “Seven Deadly Sins,” with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil’s libretto and score. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z Wagner, just 21 years younger, wrote his own librettos and waited for decades to complete an opera, even building his own theater, so that the performances would be precisely as he envisioned them. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z Tines will again sing Adams, with Sellars writing the libretto and directing, in a world premiere at San Francisco Opera next year. At 29, this 'El Niño' singer is the buzz of California's opera world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The libretto’s medieval Antwerp is not so different from the Germany that blindly followed its own Führer. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z What separates "Kiss Me, Kate" from the other popular Porter musicals, such as "Anything Goes," is the ingenious marriage of music and libretto. Old Globe's 'Kiss Me, Kate' steals a smile if not a heart 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z In the past 12 years he's written an opera, "Sacco and Vanzetti"; rewritten the libretto of Puccini's only failure, "Edgar;" and done extensive revisions for "The Merry Widow." T Magazine: Back to Bernalda 2012-11-15T14:01:25Z Though her diction was often unclear, Stravinsky is partly at fault for the sometimes awkward way he set the clever but archly poetic English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Music Review: In Yielding to Temptation, Losing a Chance at True Love 2011-06-27T21:19:10Z The British composer's 1954 adaptation of the Henry James story, setting a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, perfectly captures the suffocating atmosphere as well as the ambiguity of the original. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z “Balls” is Collins’ first foray into libretto writing, so she worked closely with Karpman throughout the process. Why it took two women to write 'Balls,' the opera about Billie Jean King's 'Battle of the Sexes' 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z He stood at a lectern with the opera’s libretto before him and opera glasses in hand. Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Yet, in her libretto, in order to serve the conventions of the opera genre, Ms. Proulx also opens up the story line and, now and then, lends poetic elegance to the dialogue. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z Like many of her works, the music is never truly at rest and keeps organically changing shape, with subtly specific characterizations for each role and a fluidity that matches the libretto’s interwoven timelines and perspectives. A Reigning Opera Composer Writes of Trauma and ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z She asked Sánchez to write the libretto — a first for him. Seattle poet Raul Sanchez lends his words to a unique music project 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z A rich, powerful land owner, called the Protector in Crimp's libretto, commissions an artist, the Boy, to celebrate his life and the achievements of his family in an extravagant illuminated book. Written on Skin – review 2012-07-08T14:38:59Z With a libretto by Ms. Weir, “Miss Fortune” is based on “Sfortuna,” a Sicilian folktale. ArtsBeat Blog: Santa Fe Opera to Present Three New Works 2011-08-10T20:15:01Z The libretto identifies him as the Shaman, although nothing in the sung text or the staging made that clear, and his engagement with the office workers wasn’t meaningful. Review: ‘Between Worlds,’ With English National Opera, Addresses 9/11 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Aucoin wrote an original libretto that quotes some poems, including “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” which provides the opera’s cryptic opening line: “What is it, then, between us?” How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z In the three years since its canceled premiere, Soper has worked to refine the libretto. An Eagerly Awaited Opera, Delayed by the Pandemic, Opens at Last 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Joneleit notably passed up the opportunity to reflect musically the moment when the libretto touches on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Review: The New Opera 'Metanoia' Goes On, but Without Its Provocateur 2010-10-12T13:30:00Z To cut the stream-of-consciousness verbosity, as an opera libretto must, is to leave exposed the fragility of the play’s central, rather standard-issue melodramas. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The libretto, much of it taken directly from Durrell's play, is self-conscious "fine writing", which is difficult to sing. Glanville-Hicks: Sappho – review 2012-12-19T16:22:10Z If Braunfels had written a libretto with a continuous narrative, he might have been compelled to tighten the scene and get the story moving. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z But controversy there was: The opera’s libretto was written by Stefan Zweig, a Jew, who submitted it two weeks before Adolf Hitler became Germany’s chancellor in 1933. Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z In particular, operas known as pasticcios staged in the 17th and 18th centuries were freewheeling hodgepodges, offering fast-paced spectacles of music by several composers, with plot, action and libretto altered at whim. Music Review: Variety Show, With Arias Thrown In 2010-10-25T22:48:00Z “The Medium,” a compact tragedy in two acts from 1945, to Menotti’s own libretto, was his first great hit. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z Auden and Chester Kallman based their libretto on 18th century William Hogarth etchings that had caught Stravinsky’s neo-Classical eye, but the opera is often updated. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Cave's libretto is organized into 12 songs, or cantos, each focusing on one participant in the war. 'Shell Shock' opera brings trauma of World War One to stage 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z With a poetic libretto and mercurial score, its ideas shift in and out of focus, slippery and only suggested: the ephemerality of inspiration; the stifling frustration of doubt; the ecstasy of cultivating beauty. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z There’s an airy vastness to the playing that conjures the setting described in the libretto: the exterior of a grand temple, a courtyard receding back to the sea, priests preparing a sacrifice, a crowd gathering. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Translating librettos is a time-honored practice that takes enormous skill. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z This year the English National Opera presented the premiere of his full-length “Two Boys,” with a libretto by Craig Lucas, which drew mixed reviews and is scheduled for a future production at the Metropolitan Opera. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z A significant problem was Wright’s libretto, which didn’t come close to Hitchcock’s adaptation in terms of making something dramatically viable out of Winston Graham’s 1961 book. Review | ‘Marnie’ is all too insubstantial at Met Opera premiere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z With a poetic, often enigmatic libretto by Alice Goodman, the work is consciously modeled on the Bach Passions, with Bach’s Evangelist metamorphosed into the opera’s nameless Captain, helplessly recalling the loss of his ship. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In 1976, for the Chicago Opera Theater, he directed “The Mother of Us All,” the Virgil Thomson opera for which Ms. Stein wrote the libretto. Frank Galati, Mainstay of Chicago Theater, Dies at 79 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z “The libretto and the music marry together so perfectly, because the taste of the music is so French, with that feeling of complete abandon,” says Focile. Seattle Opera stages Cocteau’s ‘La Voix Humaine’ 2013-04-26T20:23:21Z The score, by Dmitri Shostakovich, and the libretto date from 1935. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z For the piece, co-commissioned by the National Geographic Society, Auerbach traveled to the north and spent extensive time with the Inuit peoples, learning the language and writing the libretto herself. The Direct Current festival is about new things. But sometimes it forgets to tell the audience. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Operas known as pasticcios were popular in the Baroque era, often featuring music by several composers, with plot, action and libretto altered at whim. Music Review: Monteverdi’s ‘Ballo Delle Ingrate,’ With a Different Spin 2012-06-04T22:24:09Z Today’s opera quiz: Which two major opera librettos feature ladies with beards? For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The libretto combines Mandarin, modified Mandarin and invented words and sounds. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The eye flies from this to the stage action to the projections of a complicated, text-thick libretto in German, Dutch, English, Italian and Spanish and Latin. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Writing an original libretto also allowed Mr. Aucoin to create a nuanced portrait of Whitman that wouldn’t fall into what he called “a curious idealizing tendency among recent operas.” How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Whatever the literary value of the best librettos, the words are not meant to be savored on the page but heard from the stage. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z Translating the libretto written by Cesare Sterbini for Rossini is a tougher task, primarily because the rhythm of Italian is difficult to replicate in English, with its harsher consonants. Met gives `Barber' a cut in English version 2012-12-28T17:38:08Z A team of six writers and six composers — all based in the Los Angeles area — wrote the libretto and the music. ‘Hopscotch’ Takes Opera Into the Streets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Of course it involves a tradeoff: vocal lines were carefully fitted by composers to the specific language of a libretto. Music Review: A Wagnerian Quest in Proper English 2011-02-17T22:57:54Z The libretto is based on interviews with Mr. Watson. ArtsBeat: Cutting-Edge Chamber Opera Festival to Offer Five Works 2013-07-17T14:20:28Z He had that in his first opera, “The Song of Majnun” in 1992, with a libretto by the critic Andrew Porter. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The librettos are presented in their original languages only, and each draws on several sources, including original printed editions, manuscripts and even earlier librettos that were used as models for the librettos Mozart set. ArtsBeat: Scholarly Editions of Mozart Librettos Going Online 2014-02-06T17:16:06Z But all the emoting is crammed into a curiously literal, procedural frame, as if someone had tried to make an opera libretto out of court transcripts. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z He knew Ms. Wimberly through her brother, Michael, a percussionist with whom he had performed, and asked her to write the libretto of what would become “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.” Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Yet this musical brilliance far outstrips the uncomfortable amalgam of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV Parts I and II, out of which Boito constructed a libretto. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z Directors took particular liberties with the opera’s libretto. Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Her research led her to museums and mines and books, which helped her create a libretto from historical texts and first-person accounts. Pulitzer Winner for Music Found Inspiration in Pennsylvania Coal Mines 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z There are an abundance of people coming through with musical talent, but how to write a good libretto? Royal Opera House reveals new season on eve of chief executive's departure 2013-01-10T18:56:20Z He certainly has the skill to render a Mozart opera libretto into singable English, as his version of “The Magic Flute” at the Met proves. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z The libretto here is full of admonishments: “don’t count your chickens” and “the proof is in the pudding.” A New York City Childhood Leads to Anxiety and Jokes in ‘What’s So Funny?’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Profanities pop like a string of firecrackers in Mr. Vavrek’s libretto, yet its poetry is indelible and affecting. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z In December this small, enterprising company on the Upper East Side of Manhattan will present the premiere of Mr. Pasatieri’s “God Bless Us Everyone,” with a libretto by Michael Capasso, Dicapo’s general director. Music Review: Amorous Confusion in Pasatieri?s Adaptation of Chekhov?s Play 2010-09-27T21:44:00Z She adds: "My movement vocabulary and choreographic structures are imbued with imagery responsive to the libretto and to the emotional content of the libretto and music." Trisha Brown Dance Company brings familiar favorites, world premiere to Seattle 2011-03-26T01:04:18Z But space constraints prevented inclusion of full librettos, which is a drawback for the serious listener. Review: All of Verdi in 1 big box 2013-03-05T14:44:09Z The opera’s libretto fuses contrasting stories: the biblical tale of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and a story line from the Chinese kunqu drama “The Peony Pavilion,” a multipart, 19-hour epic. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It will have a libretto by Tom Cairns, who also will direct, and will premiere at Covent Garden in the spring of 2017, the company said Thursday. Royal Opera announces series of commissions 2013-01-11T01:09:07Z Those are usually individual or small-group performances, but they recently staged a more ambitious project: the Seattle premiere of Philip Glass’s modern “Hydrogen Jukebox,” with a social-commentary libretto by Allen Ginsberg. Think opera is just for hoity-toity rich people? Not so! Here’s a beginner’s guide to this grand art form. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z With a libretto by Alice Goodman, the piece stirred controversy over what critics say is its humanization of terrorists who murder Klinghoffer. Controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' goes on at Met Opera House despite protests 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Originally commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater, the Met dropped it after Mr. Wainwright insisted on having a libretto in French. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Some of his stagings, even ones that remain in the libretto’s period, have provoked fierce backlashes. Hollywood? Nope. The Met Will Do for David McVicar. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The second line of the “Neither” libretto — “from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself by way of neither” — conveys the mix of what seems to be acute observation and complete uncertainty in Beckett’s phrases. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z Subsequent performances reinstated the discarded opening act as well as the original French libretto, now most commonly sung in an Italian translation. Music Review: ‘Don Carlos,’ in Its Original Tongue, Reveals Intricacies 2013-07-21T22:00:53Z I sat up every time he seemed to push the libretto aside briefly to let some gnarly, skittish music take charge, especially in the incisive performance he conducted. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z While Frédéric Boyer’s libretto spans a tremendous amount of material, the text doesn’t feel rushed, but as calmly solemn, prayerlike and formal as a ceremony of Gregorian monks, with choral incantations interjected throughout. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Pountney, who runs the Bregenz Festival in Austria and has just taken charge of the Welsh National Opera, has supplied librettos for two other Davies theater scores. Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z The libretto that accompanied the D’Oyly Carte recording of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” ‘Pleasure, Obligation, Curiosity, Inspiration’: What’s on Marie Arana’s Nightstand 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Assigned the stilted libretto by his composition teacher, he wrote the 60-minute score in three weeks, including the orchestration. Review: Signs of Rebirth at New York City Opera 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z A topsy-turvy 2013 staging by Skylark Opera and Mu Performing Arts in St. Paul inverted the libretto, setting the piece in England and casting Asian-American actors in key roles. Reviving ‘The Mikado’ in a Balancing Act of Taste 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z She spent 18 months working on the libretto, then quit because of differences with San Francisco Opera, which commissioned the work, over its direction. She Gave Words to Opera’s Nixon 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The libretto by Sarah Ruhl is adapted from her play of the same name, which recasts the story of the musician’s descent to the underworld by focusing on his wife. “Eurydice” heads to LA Opera and then Met 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z An ornately illustrated libretto offered extensive annotations that ended up even more cryptic. Oneohtrix Point Never’s Quest to Make Music That Freaks People Out 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In “Superstar” it’s the disciple Judas Iscariot who dominates the libretto, as he ponders the mass awe that Jesus elicits and tries to figure out why. Spring Performance: On Broadway, a Penchant for Celebrity Biographies in Song 2012-02-23T22:15:24Z Verdi believed so strongly in the music to “Stiffelio” that he adapted the score to a new libretto, turning the minister into a medieval crusader. 2010-01-12T23:25:00Z Mr. Korie’s libretto, though too reliant on rhymed couplets, mostly does a graceful job of highlighting story lines and conveying character. Music Review: Collegiate Choral, With Jane Fonda, in a Concert Version 2010-03-23T22:18:00Z Its libretto, by American novelist and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer, derives from Kafka's terrifying short story of the same name. In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z As this staging makes clear, the sexual yearning is explicit in Da Ponte’s libretto and Mozart’s music. Music Review: City Opera?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-03-19T22:28:54Z In the libretto, the murder takes place offstage. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It is still rightly beloved for its assured libretto and gorgeous music. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:31:11Z At the end Mr. Glass appeared at the protest and read the final lines of the libretto, taken from the Bhagavad-Gita. Critic's Notebook: Balcony Seats Can Help Economic Inequalities in Arts 2011-12-29T18:00:01Z This simple phrase wiped away our blind assumption that the single libretto for “Dido” represented its first performance. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z This two-volume boxed set contains the complete libretti of such Golden Age favorites as "Oklahoma!," Holiday gift ideas for theater lovers 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The final version of the libretto – in four acts – was completed early in 1950, by which point Britten had begun composition. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z “And I’ve tried to write a libretto that is comic in the same way, and in the same way my plays normally have that sense of rhythm.” Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z “The Turing Project,” with music by Justine Chen and a libretto by David Simpatico, dramatizes the life of Alan Turing, the computer pioneer. Critic’s Notebook: InsightALT, a Festival of Operas in Progress 2013-05-31T21:38:00Z It was a work of enormous talent, exciting promise and considerable hubris: Mr. Aucoin wrote his own libretto, inventing a story about Walt Whitman’s work with wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z American composer Charles Wuorinen saw the operatic potential of the doomed romance between two Wyoming sheep herders, however, and asked Proulx to write the libretto. Brokeback Mountain opera gives voice to frustrated cowboy love 2014-01-27T16:36:01Z But Ashley’s tersely poetic libretto, about the broken lives and stubborn dreams of the denizens of a public park, is delivered almost entirely in a kind of heightened speech. How Young Singers Get Used to ‘Dust’ in Their Mouths 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z To preserve the gossamer sense of abstraction she imagined, Ms. Lash wrote the poetic libretto herself. ‘Desire’ Is an Operatic Glimpse Into a Secret Garden 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Thurman is a natural at intoning amid the wispy thatches of underscoring, and she sometimes tries to inject some attitude into the dry libretto. A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z He said Mr. McCartney created the libretto on his own. ArtsBeat: Paul McCartney Collaborates With City Ballet 2011-02-23T19:28:55Z After what Stollman describes in the libretto as a sad smile, the Sacks character sings: An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The scene came in Act III, where the libretto calls for Austrian soldiers to force local women to dance. ‘Guillaume Tell,’ at Royal Opera House, Draws Criticism for Violence and Nudity 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z With a look inspired by European cafes and a reading room atmosphere, it will sell coffee, merchandise and writing materials, along with play scripts, librettos and books about the arts. Drama Book Shop Sets a Fresh Start in a New Locale 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Zhou was chosen to write the music by Cerise Lim Jacobs, who wrote the opera's libretto. Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z It is steeped in the Russia of Pushkin, whose 1833 verse novel is the basis for the libretto. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z The libretto was further tailored to Hamburg taste and style with the addition of extras and spectacle: dances, processions and the like. Music Review: ‘Almira’ Ageless at Boston Early Music Festival 2013-06-13T21:05:28Z Sir Michael Tippett's King Priam, with its libretto based on Homer's Iliad – is rarely performed and little known. King Priam, a pacifist's opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war 2012-05-24T09:32:34Z Mr. Scheer’s libretto was an economical wonder, casting off Melville’s landlocked opening and stretches of minutiae regarding whales and whaling. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z The seminal work, with a libretto by Berg adapted from two plays by Frank Wedekind, proved an ideal fit for Mr. Kentridge’s darkly fantastical artistic sensibility. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z He pruned the libretto drastically to enhance the dramatic pacing, and wrote complex music that plumbs the emotional turmoil of the characters. Review: Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ Shows the Met Opera at Its Best 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The result is Kommilitonen!, featuring a libretto by David Pountney, who also directs the production at the Royal Academy and will stage it again in New York in the autumn. This week's new live music 2011-03-12T00:07:25Z She also co-wrote the libretto for "Hopscotch: An Opera for 24 Cars," and wrote the libretto for the Los Angeles Master Chorale's oratorio "dreams of the new world" with the composer Ellen Reid. A Connection Made at the Talent Agency 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The libretto features strong lyrics like in “Calvary” in which Parker’s mother, Addie, poetically laments “This land ain’t no place for a Black man child, got dreams.” ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at Seattle Opera offers an unlikely mash-up of jazz and opera. How well does it work? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The problem is that Wagner also influenced Strauss’s libretto, and Strauss wasn’t much of a poet. Washington Concert Opera exhumes Strauss rarity — once 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z By their second encounter, Willems had the libretto in his head, a sketch of the characters in concert dress and a title: “SLOPERA!” Mo Willems Finds Yet Another Way to Entertain Kids: Opera 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The only surviving libretto from Purcell’s lifetime does say clearly that the opera was performed at Josias Priest’s boarding school. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Shchedrin, who wrote his own libretto, selects only a handful of these episodes and telescopes the story into a maudlin quest for redemption. ‘The Enchanted Wanderer,’ by the Mariinsky Theater, at BAM 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Klinghoffer doesn't appear in the libretto until the opera's second act, which is after intermission. Met Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' is a compassionate feat 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z 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 “Everything that I do as a picture book writer is reductive,” Willems said, reflecting on what writing his first libretto taught him, aside from the importance of placing consonants carefully. Mo Willems Finds Yet Another Way to Entertain Kids: Opera 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z These were transcribed and pieced together into a libretto by the writer Scott Diel, with whom Birman has collaborated on other verbatim projects. What Is Russia Thinking? A ‘Documentary Opera’ Tries to Answer. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Even when librettos are sung in English, subtitles are often necessary, either because of the way the words are set or because the singers struggle to project over the orchestra. Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But Universal said that “Animal House: The Musical” would feature a new score by the band Barenaked Ladies and a libretto by Michael Mitnick. ArtsBeat: They Pledge Allegiance to the Frat: 'Animal House' Musical Is Planned 2012-03-05T18:15:35Z It’s a bittersweet ending, one that may not seem to follow the libretto. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z She wrote the libretto for the opera “Margaret Garner,” which traced the life of the woman who inspired her masterpiece, “Beloved.” Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z At the opening of Act I, the libretto describes villagers decorating chalets with boughs to celebrate a triple wedding, singing a wistfully beautiful homage to God. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z American opera companies, trying to create new work, have come up with a formula involving dramaturges and libretto workshops; the results often seem formulaic. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The opera's dramatic heart is a confrontation between the two queens that never took place in history but that figures in the Friedrich Schiller play on which the libretto is based. DiDonato a luminous Mary Stuart at Met 2013-01-01T09:46:04Z The dramatic impact was enhanced because the opera was performed in an English translation of Janacek’s original Czech libretto. Review: Gifted Singers and an English Translation Enhance a Janacek Opera 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Over several months, they adapted it to the needs of the music; the final performance libretto was extracted directly from the score. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z He even wrote some arias, and the librettos for two operas, “Silla” and “Montezuma.” Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z With a libretto by Paul Claudel, the French poet and dramatist, the story is told from Joan’s viewpoint in the afterlife through a series of flashbacks. ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Distilled to Her Essence at the New York Philharmonic 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z If you look closely at the libretto, though, you notice that Herod has actually lost the authority to deliver his order. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z A musical has more elements to get right — libretto, music, choreography. At Village Theatre's new musicals fest, hope springs for Broadway 2010-08-14T05:00:00Z He wrote his own libretto, an 86-page text that reads at times like a theological compendium complete with about 100 footnotes. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z The box set, which includes a booklet of photos, essays and artist bios plus libretti in German and English, costs $150. Seattle Opera's ‘Ring,' recorded live 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Much of the ambiguity stems from the curious, even lopsided, interplay between the libretto and the score, he said. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Vavrek's libretto harnesses the plot's morbid intensity by filling in details. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z She pledged to make it a reality — and ultimately agreed, at Shorter’s urging, to write the libretto to go with his music, and to sing the lead. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Even so, the drastic changes of tone in Crimp’s libretto for “Picture” have brought a new, dramatic volatility to his operatic writing. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z The only rough sounds during the evening were the noisy rustlings as myriad listeners simultaneously turned pages of the libretto, a distraction that seemed to disrupt the performer’s intended flow. Review: Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ With Christian Gerhaher 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The new staging of Britten's maritime opera, with a libretto by EM Forster and Eric Crozier based upon Hermann Melville's posthumously published novella, will be conducted by Mark Elder. Music picks of the week 2010-05-14T23:33:00Z He has collaborated on two libretti, an operatic sideline resulting from a misapprehension. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z The official line was that Mr. Wainwright, who wrote the libretto in French, refused to bend to the Met’s insistence that it be in English. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Crimp’s libretto mixes narrative lines into the dialogue. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z “It is an epic poem as much as it is a libretto. Bill calls it a ‘choreopoem’ because Marc’s libretto has very specific instructions for how dance functions in the piece.” A Police Bombing, Homes on Fire and an Opera That Grapples With It All 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The libretto, adapted by manifold hands from Schiller’s 1804 play, is serviceable but wayward. Music Review: A Return to Rossini?s Days of Yesteryear 2011-07-10T21:37:45Z The “Trillium opera complex” is his contribution to the field, a set of 36 acts with a libretto inspired by a range of archetypes: robots, pirates, the Wild West. The Tri-Centric Festival Honors Anthony Braxton 2011-10-04T21:19:10Z Printed versions of the libretto have detailed footnotes citing not just the source of the text but the musical allusions. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z He also has extended the roles of minor characters far beyond Wagner's original libretto, and invented entirely new ones. Take that, dragon: Siegfried blasts Fafner for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-29T22:39:03Z This outrageous opera, a savage political parody, with a libretto by Mr. Davies, was recorded and released in the mid-’90s. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Strauss described “Capriccio,” with a libretto by the composer and the conductor Clemens Krauss, as a “conversation piece for music.” Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z The opera’s two acts are organized into 10 scenes — Mr. Harbison also wrote the libretto — that pass politely through most of the novel’s major plot points and classic lines. Music Review: John Harbison’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Opera at Tanglewood 2013-07-14T19:50:12Z Mr. Martins said the libretto was Mr. McCartney’s alone. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z Ariosto’s Orlando is a leader in Charlemagne’s army, though the opera’s libretto leaves the details vague. Review: The English Concert Performs Handel’s ‘Orlando’ at Carnegie Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z This attachment to popular culture, along with his status as an Arsenal fan and willingness to embrace bad language in his librettos, soon saw Turnage cast as a working-class wunderkind. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z A cursory reading of the libretto gives rise to yet another urgent question. Theater Review: Frank Wildhorn’s ‘Jekyll & Hyde,’ at the Marquis Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:54Z The opera that audiences here have seen — the one that has been staged at the Met more than 200 times — is “Don Carlo,” its libretto in Italian. Review: ‘Don Carlos’ Finally Brings French Verdi to the Met 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z However, if you’re not familiar with the libretto already, you might just want to invest in the Blu-ray release of this provocative staging, since it offers subtitles. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z When we started, I was challenged by just how few words there are in a libretto. Mark Ravenhill's debut opera goes for the gut 2010-08-04T20:45:00Z Most important, van der Aa — who not only composed “Upload,” but also wrote the libretto, staged it and directed a film version streaming on medici.tv — tightly binds technology and dramaturgy. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Set in a permanent haze behind a scrim, the production, aided by clever casting and costuming, at least finally made Giovanni and his servant, Leporello, the uncanny doppelgängers they are in the libretto. After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The libretto has countless lines that can not be printed in a family newspaper. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z “We are waking up to the idea that opera is for everyone,” said Andrea Davis Pinkney, a children’s book author who wrote the libretto. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Led with subtlety and patience by Bicket, the performance, in the libretto’s words, let “sweetly flow the lulling sound.” Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Music journalists, myself included, have been refused access to rehearsals, copies of the score and even a look at the libretto. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z The result chafes clunkily against the music and libretto, like an attempt to capture a Gertrude Stein poem in CliffsNotes. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The Met has found such a person in Jeremy Sams, the British director, composer and translator who devised the plot and wrote the libretto for “The Enchanted Island.” ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z Adams turns 75 in February and is hard at work on his latest opera — a treatment of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” set to his own libretto. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Ruhl’s words in the play and the resultant libretto are few enough to feel precisely chosen, chiseled into marble — a mythic short-spokenness that lends the words heft and levity at once. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z “It has a tight libretto, with no fluff. And the whole idea of being powerless, of political corruption, of a teenage girl facing hard choices — it’s something everyone understands.” A Fascist-era ‘Rigoletto’ returning to Seattle Opera 2013-12-31T23:10:37Z So when scholars got serious about “Don Carlos” a century later, they could reconstruct that cut music from handwritten orchestra parts, draft librettos, rehearsal reports and the like. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z For “Flora” the libretto survives, along with at least two versions of the score. Colonial Roots at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C. 2010-05-30T22:11:00Z The writing itself is wonderfully operatic; you could almost imagine the script as a libretto. Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z It was first presented last year in Budapest as part of a cycle of the three operas written by Mozart to librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z For an exhibition at the university’s rare-book library, he displayed a single page of the libretto, with his own translation alongside it. Preparing ‘The Golden Bride’ for Its Big Day 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z But “Anna Nicole,” with a witty libretto by Richard Thomas and an eclectic score, is a brilliant, outrageous and, finally, quite moving work that treats Smith as an unlikely tragic heroine. Looking Back at ?Anna Nicole,? ?Griselda? and ?Don Giovanni? 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z The work, with a libretto by Thulani Davis, the composer’s cousin, from a story by his brother, Christopher Davis, premiered in the mid-1980s, first in Philadelphia and, officially, at New York City Opera. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps drearier, since it now lacks the Met’s starry cast, which did its best to convince you that the piece, with a pallid libretto by Gene Scheer, had a beating heart. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z McIntosh's "Bonnie and Clyde," with a libretto by Melinda Rice, is a kind of musical annotation on the infamous couple. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z He was palpably swept up in the tale, which he adapted from two stories, writing his own libretto. Music Review: Philharmonic and Gerald Finley in ‘Il Prigioniero’ 2013-06-07T20:26:14Z For the most part, the action, if not the hero's personality, follows the libretto. Review: Kaufmann triumphs as La Scala's Lohengrin 2012-12-12T13:42:19Z But don’t expect any more improvements to the libretto. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z This opera adaptation -- with a libretto by Philip Littell closely following Williams’ play and Previn’s score seeking always to honor the lyricism of the drama, not overwhelm it -- centers on Blanche’s experience. Theatrical victory belongs to Blanche in 'Streetcar' opera 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z He buried himself in the details, adopting Meyerbeerian ideas, paying close attention to aspects of French verse that were unfamiliar to Italian opera librettos and bending his music to accommodate the eight-syllable “octosyllabe” line. Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Les Vêpres Siciliennes’: How Paris Helped Him Soar 2013-07-07T21:44:22Z Every detail of the constant action underlines the character development and relates directly to the music and the libretto. A fast and funny ‘Cinderella’ at Seattle Opera | Review 2013-01-14T07:10:25Z Both Thompson’s libretto and direction excel through contrasts. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Following Franck’s libretto, the choreography shows us episodes from the myth of Psyché rather than the full story. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet?s ?Ph?dre? and ?Psych?? - Review 2011-09-28T21:04:57Z Joplin’s libretto is sometimes stilted, and the black dialect the downtrodden laborers speak, though authentic, is uncomfortably dated. Critic?s Notebook: For City Opera, Spare Show May Signal Future 2011-06-07T22:00:29Z Later, his mother tries, and fails, to force-feed her oblivious son the libretto for “Fat.” ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Any Odd? He Beat It. 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Over more than 15 years, various drafts gradually mutated into the libretto for an opera, “Pushkin: Poet and Czar,” which had its debut in concert form in Moscow on Feb. 4. A Descendant’s Daring Homage to Pushkin 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Our next choice was riskier but, we thought, potentially exciting: Virgil Thomson’s opera “The Mother of Us All,” with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. When a Critic Put on the ‘Best of All American Operas’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Images of biblical scenes were projected onto the wall above the stage along with parts of the libretto. Review: ‘The Road of Promise,’ Warning to All About Jews in Germany 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Johnson, who wrote her own libretto and calls her work "A VHS Opera in Three Fragments," was about not knowing. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The libretto, more a poem, begins: "to and fro in shadow from inner to outer shadow." 'Neither,' ignored in U.S., gets extravagant German staging 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Goodman’s prophetic libretto has a satisfied Mao predicting that “our plunge/Into the New York Stock Exchange/Will line some pockets here and there.” Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z The two-act opera, with a libretto by Craig Lucas, depicts a police investigation into a case of attempted murder in which a teenager has stabbed a slightly younger boy. Music Review: Nico Muhly Previews His ‘Two Boys’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-05-15T20:05:23Z Heyward originally wrote this story as a novel, which he and Dorothy Heyward, his wife, adapted into a successful play, which became the basis for the libretto. Review: A Vital and Sweeping ‘Porgy and Bess’ Debuts in London 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z “Tenor Overboard” relies more on theatrical dialogue than on the usual operatic recitative, so Ludwig’s libretto had to be fairly extensive — and funny. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z She has also written an opera libretto with Sally Beamish for Scottish Opera, as well as poetry, short stories and novels. Janice Galloway 'anti-memoir' is named Scottish book of the year 2012-08-18T08:39:25Z In the libretto he sometimes speaks with a kind of plain-spoken elegance. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z Instead, Mr. Peers’s smart libretto adopts a process that peels away his title character’s contradictions, unreliable memories, half-lies and compromising admissions in a way that subtly notches up the pathos. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z After that, maybe a libretto, if not supertitles. Review: The Vision Festival Gives Experimental Jazz a Big Hug 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In opera, it’s the custom to read the libretto before the show, but doing so in this case would spoil the surprise twist at the end. Perspective | How do you get an audience excited for opera? It’s the vision thing. 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Koppelman said that he was never asked to show his libretto to government officials. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Auden moved on to much better things, and wrote the incomparable libretto to Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Like many of Telemann's operas, it's quirkily multilingual, the result of his habit of inserting untranslated textual fragments from other operas into his librettos. Orpheus – review 2013-03-20T18:33:58Z By contrast, Ms. Field’s libretto contains not even a frisson of political awareness. Review: Choosing a Husband or a Lover in Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s ‘Rosina’ 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z That this can be done was proved recently when performed Strauss’s chatty domestic comedy “Intermezzo” in Andrew Porter’s clever and effective English translation of Strauss’s own German libretto. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z With a libretto and stage direction by Joël Pommerat, this adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s tale of a marionette’s path to truth and redemption is a darkly entertaining piece of music theater. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z I’ve never written a poem or a song lyric but I bought the dictionary when I was translating the libretto of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” five years ago. Roddy Doyle Scored 8 Out of 10 on a Quiz About Roddy Doyle 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The libretto is a German translation of an Italian libretto from 1691. Music Review: Operamission Performs Handel’s ‘Almira’ at Gershwin Hotel 2012-05-30T22:29:39Z The libretto, by Colette, tells of a boy who, told off by his mother for being naughty, flies into a tantrum and trashes his room. Glyndebourne's odd double 2012-08-09T19:00:12Z The opera, to the composer’s own libretto, is based on Whitman’s diaries from his time nursing wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, they delivered the libretto’s English lines with heavy French accents and imprecise intonation. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z While the libretto sets the work in the Italian Renaissance, this staging plays out, like “Rake,” among an immoral contemporary elite, a group of men in a corporate boardroom. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Here was Nixon, an “old cold warrior/Piloting towards an unknown shore,” as he refers to himself in Ms. Goodman’s poetic libretto. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z In many great operas, composers have had to whittle down an epic literary work into a suitable libretto. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z At least that is what the libretto indicates. Met’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ Stars Eva-Maria Westbroek 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z For example, in this scene from “The Magic Flute,” the German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder has the sorry bird catcher bidding farewell to all pretty maidens. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z Written in 1935, the opera, a comedy with a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Johnson, is that standard situation of an old man marrying a young woman. Webcast from Munich of Strauss' 'The Silent Woman' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z He wrote the libretto as well as the music; both were sharp as nails. Bernstein's A Quiet Place: silence is golden 2011-01-14T22:32:01Z Instead, this is a "pasticcio", with music by 16 composers set to the same libretto by Metastasio in which, yes, the winner gets the girl. L'Olympiade: the Opera ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:27Z Aside from his poetry, he has written a series of opera libretti, most notably with Harrison Birtwistle. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z “I’ve had my fill,” he said, stating that he’s watched a filmed production on DVD and read the libretto. The Met, the opera on Leon Klinghoffer’s murder and the politics of protest One interesting detail that he took from the original libretto but expanded was the way the innocent, rustic Simplicius equates the terror of the soldiers with a wolf that kills his sheep. Review: An Anti-Nazi Protest in the Guise of Opera 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “Troubled Island,” about the Haitian revolution and its aftermath, boasted a libretto by Langston Hughes and additional lyrics by Verna Arvey, a writer who was married to Still. A Black Composer’s Intense Opera Gets a Rare Staging 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Most of the fine-tuning of the libretto was focused on finding the right balance of storytelling and action. Visions of Sugar Rum Cherries Tap Dance in Her Head 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Wainwright was given the commission by the Met and Lincoln Center Theater in 2007, but the project was turned down the following year when Wainwright and Bernadette Colomine wrote the libretto in French. Rufus Wainwright's 'Prima Donna' at NY City Opera 2010-12-08T03:01:00Z It also plans to host classes in everything from singing to libretto writing to set building for people of all abilities and experience levels. Seattle Opera has big plans for its new headquarters at Seattle Center 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Many story ballets falter when the libretto is overly complicated. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z Mr. Davis has been working on the opera, with a libretto by Richard Wesley, for years. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The libretto certainly contains a few crucial references to Otello’s skin color, and Iago says some hatefully racist things about his boss. Review: Metropolitan Opera’s New ‘Otello,’ Bold and Tentative 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The libretto, taken from the James Agee’s work bearing the same title, wasn’t provided in the program. Music Review: A Tour of Two Continents: Jaunty Mexican Musings to Somber Cosmic Questions 2011-03-27T22:09:35Z Though just 40 minutes, it’s an intense and strangely involving work, with a brilliant libretto by Mr. Kushner and an eclectic score by Ms. Tesori. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z “A Star Across the Ocean,” with music and libretto by Scott Davenport Richards, was another boldly multistylistic piece, about an interracial family exploring the heritage of black Americans in Paris. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z But first they must push aside intrusive elements of contemporary times, as the playwright Martin Crimp’s inventive libretto makes explicit. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Thomas said that to show a critic the libretto would count as publication. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z The references to Memphis and Thebes, Isis and Phthah remain in the libretto, but there's not a hieroglyph or a pyramid, let alone an elephant, to be seen. Aida 2010-04-28T20:30:00Z But Jones admitted to being unfamiliar with the form before writing the libretto. Monty Python's Terry Jones sinks his teeth into canine opera 2011-04-08T21:00:01Z In Kirk Lynn’s libretto, the television announcers tell about Bum; family members tell about Bum; Bum tells about Bum. Opera Review: Opera Celebrates Bum Phillips, Who Led the Houston Oilers 2014-03-21T22:01:54Z He has provided the libretto for The Doctor's Tale, a story about a successful doctor who is struck from the register simply for being a dog. Monty Python's Terry Jones sinks his teeth into canine opera 2011-04-08T21:00:01Z The excellent early chapters set up a distinction between the way a character is perceived in the libretto and the way he or she comes across in a performance. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z In the libretto the second scene takes place within a temple where the Egyptians pray to their gods for success in fighting the Ethiopians. Music Review: At Glimmerglass, ‘Aida,’ ‘Armide’ and ‘Lost in the Stars’ 2012-08-06T22:15:41Z Her “Seven” monologue and her “Thumbprint” libretto are based on interviews she conducted with Mai through a translator. Her opera helps a Pakistani rape survivor find a louder voice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Gluck’s co-opting of the “Armide” text not quite a century after Lully, with only limited changes, set off a rage for retrofitting Quinault’s librettos with new music. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z Anthony Tommasini wrote in The New York Times that it featured “one of the most elegant librettos I’ve heard in a long time.” My Journey to Writing an Opera About Police Violence 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z At the beginning of Act 3, with the newlyweds alone for the first time, the libretto places them in a bridal chamber. Review: Kaufmann triumphs as La Scala's Lohengrin 2012-12-12T13:42:19Z Key words and phrases from Mr. Wolfe’s novel will be woven into the original libretto. 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' Gets Opera Adaptation 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The elderly Titurel, here, is not just an offstage voice, as in the libretto. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Strauss wrote his own libretto for this thinly disguised semi-comic glimpse into his own domestic life. This week's new music 2011-03-26T00:07:03Z The script is simply Stein’s libretto, unaltered — a chaotically opaque, willfully bizarre text that occasionally turns inquiring and poetic but is most often principally concerned with the sound of language and the human voice. ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ Review: An Opera Becomes a One-Man Show 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Ocean's Kingdom is a phantasmagoric musical saga, two years in the making, which includes original compositions and a libretto by Sir Paul. Paul McCartney composes orchestral work for New York City Ballet 2011-02-24T10:57:30Z I think there needs to be a libretto, but it should be less obtrusive and more along the lines of David Neumann's choreography, which is fluid and inventive but content to remain almost subliminal. 'Family Album' confirms Stew and Rodewald's musical instincts 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Eliot's poetry and EM Forster's libretto for Billy Budd remind us how much we are still living on the capital of a much older generation. From the Observer archive, 30 December 1951: Festival of Britain fosters a new spirit of inquiry 2012-12-30T00:06:05Z The original libretto was to be written with comic artist and occultist Alan Moore, who has since published his unfinished manuscript in a journal. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z Georgia Jarman’s lovely soprano suited Josephine’s lovelorn and dramatic arias perfectly, and if she played her comic moments broadly, the libretto sanctions that approach. Music Review: Sailing a Saucy Ship Into Bel Canto Seas 2011-06-26T22:09:05Z The historical context: When “The Consul” came to Broadway in 1950, Menotti’s libretto was timely indeed, despite its allegorical vagueness about date and setting. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z That this opera, an 80-minute setting of a German libretto by Christian Lehnert, exists at all is something of a miracle. Music Review: In Philadelphia, an Operatic Portrait of a Stepmother for the Ages 2011-06-05T22:02:22Z While in the libretto, the dwarf Alberich briefly turns himself into a lowly toad, that is here just a metaphor; it’s mentioned in the text, but nothing happens. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z If Verdi or Donizetti had set the same libretto, the opera would have lasted for days. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z Their process has been a new one for Picker, who in his previous five operas worked from a completed libretto. An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z In Hindemith’s libretto, the title painter has to choose whether to engage in the 16th-century’s “Peasant’s War.” A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z “When she was writing the libretto, I didn’t know what she was writing,” says Shorter by phone from California. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Yet every element is based on what seems like an acute reading of the libretto and the music. ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met Opera and in Two Other Stagings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z In the libretto, Edrisi, an Arab scholar who is the king’s counselor, describes him as a “youth with copper curls” wearing a goatskin, with eyes like stars and a smile full of mystery. Opera Review: ‘King Roger,’ With Mariusz Kwiecien, at Santa Fe Opera 2012-07-27T21:24:17Z Mr. Kushner has dabbled in librettos, but operatic texts require concision — something you don’t associate with his sweeping, capacious plays. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z For all the merits of Zweig’s libretto, it is very talky, and much of Strauss’s music is of the dry type familiar from the less memorable portions of “Der Rosenkavalier.” Review: 'A Silent Woman' With a Big Voice 2010-07-27T11:30:00Z Poulenc wrote the French libretto, adapted from a play by Georges Bernanos, and his music is an uncanny balancing act: restrained yet lush, refined yet wrenching. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z Instead of progressing in the linear fashion of the libretto, the soldier’s full life is often in view, inside single shots, no matter the age being dramatized within a particular song. Prompted by the Pandemic, Opera Philadelphia Innovates Online 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Little completed “Soldier Songs” in 2006, basing its libretto on interviews he conducted with family members and schoolmates who served in , Vietnam, the gulf wars and Afghanistan. Music Review: ‘Soldier Songs’ at Pace University 2013-01-14T22:39:57Z The libretto of “Elijah,” drawn largely from I Kings, is packed with drama: Elijah’s confrontations with Ahab, Jezebel and the priests of Baal, and his revival of the widow’s dead son, for starters. Music Review: A Score To Praise A Prophet 2011-04-28T20:51:24Z “Carousel” and “South Pacific” — and the book is cleareyed about the faults of his later librettos. How Rodgers and Hammerstein Created Modern Musical Theater 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z "There's still no getting around the presence of stereotypes in that libretto," acknowledges Brown, the music professor. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z 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 He leaves his hometown and later returns — like the libretto’s cursed Dutchman, docking his ship every seven years in search of a love that will redeem him. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Sondheim strongly defended the original “Porgy and Bess,” particularly the contributions of DuBose Heyward, who wrote the libretto and, with Ira Gershwin, the lyrics. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z Christopher Gattelli, the director and choreographer, and Timothy Allen McDonald, the lead producer, have gussied up the libretto nicely, giving the furry characters a bit more depth and enlivening the talent show. Revisiting Childhood Wonder With Winnie the Pooh and Emmet Otter 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The libretto recounts the tribulations of the French poet during the Revolution from enthusiastic participant to guillotined victim. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z Mr. Adès’s solution — as you will hear when he conducts the Metropolitan Opera’s production by Robert Lepage beginning on Tuesday evening — was to ask the Australian playwright Meredith Oakes to write a libretto. Thomas Adès Conducts the Met’s Premiere of ‘The Tempest’ 2012-10-21T03:23:03Z You also wrote the libretto of an opera version of "Doubt" that Minnesota Opera premiered in 2013. John Patrick Shanley gets his Irish up with 'Outside Mullingar' 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Though she wrote opera librettos and made operas, concerts, and ballets a fixture of her cultural life, Catherine described herself as tone deaf. 10 things you may not know about Catherine the Great 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z For the past several years I have been working on the libretto for an opera, Babur in London, with the composer Edward Rushton. Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art? 2012-08-10T21:30:01Z They will also jointly stage a conference on libretto writing in April. Royal Opera House reveals new season on eve of chief executive's departure 2013-01-10T18:56:20Z The first performance was in Germany, with the libretto translated into serviceable German by the composer. A fresh recording of 'Long Christmas Dinner' serves plenty to be thankful for 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z That first notion blossomed into a wonderful libretto by Nicholas Wright, which then turned into a giant stack of manuscript. Nico Muhly on the Drama of Bringing His New Opera to the Met 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z That mainly involves political and/or sexual overlays to the libretto. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z In the libretto, Donna Elvira thinks herself Giovanni’s wife, asserting that he had “declared” her as such, only to abandon her cruelly. ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met Opera and in Two Other Stagings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Schreker not only wrote his own librettos but conceived extravagant, psychologically fraught stories that seem to arise from the complex textures and rich colors of the music. Schreker's Operas Begin to Be Heard 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z This thick book contains English verse translations of the German and Italian librettos for the major Mozart operas. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z And while it makes sense that Edgardo and Lucia could not have communicated from afar in the libretto’s Scottish Highlands, the explanation for their radio silence in today’s world strains credulity, even by operatic standards. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z He would give the literary background of an opera libretto, delve into multiple editions of the score, and recount its performance history before proceeding to the rendition at hand. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” features a libretto by Kasi Lemmons based on a memoir of The New York Times columnist Charles Blow that includes themes of molestation and sexual identify. Met Opera skips this season, 1st Black composer opens ’21-22 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z While he moves the opera away from the 1860s Vienna of the libretto and into the 1930s of its composition, the political turmoil of that decade is barely hinted at. Review: ‘Arabella’ Brings Intrigue to the Munich Opera Festival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Jones was the person she turned to for her libretto. The Doctor's Tale: Barking up the right tree 2011-03-31T20:45:01Z The objections to "Klinghoffer" have mainly revolved around the sheer poetic eloquence of Alice Goodman's libretto and Adams' score, which allows the hijackers to seem momentarily sympathetic. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z And the libretto is so well written, the characters are all complex and ambivalent individuals. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z In the original opera the residents of Catfish Row slowly dance to a honky-tonk piano playing music described in DuBose Heyward’s libretto as “low-down blues.” Critic?s Notebook: Did ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Meets Its Goal? 2012-01-14T00:31:27Z As written by Britten, with a libretto by Ronald Duncan, the story is given context by two characters: Male Chorus and Female Chorus. Review: In ‘The Rape of Lucretia,’ a Woman Done In by Self-Blame 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z With a dozen dancers and his own striking visual designs, Mr. Shen illustrates the tension between shadow and light found in Mr. Beckett’s slim 16-line libretto. A Shen Wei Premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The libretto, written by Borodin, is based on an anonymous 12th-century epic poem. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z As in Adams’s partnership with Sellars, the production’s concept seems conceived alongside the development of both the libretto and score. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The Met took some unusual steps, posting the opera’s entire libretto on its website and creating a mini-site with information about the opera, audio clips and a space for comments. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ Helps Box Office 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z “Mourning Becomes Electra,” with a libretto by Henry Butler, is an adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s 1931 dramatic cycle of that name. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z With a libretto by Joplin, the story is set in 1866 on a plantation in Arkansas surrounded by a dense forest. Critic?s Notebook: For City Opera, Spare Show May Signal Future 2011-06-07T22:00:29Z Blame the source material: a title role both tedious and impractically difficult; a repetitive libretto sitting somewhere between coming-of-age adventure and dark comedy; a singing dragon. Review: In the Met’s ‘Siegfried,’ Singers Transcend the Staging 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Most crucially, perhaps, the libretto itself, containing numerous outside texts, including Thunberg’s “How dare you” speech to the United Nations, neither hangs together nor gives any sense of a narrative or a poetic progression. Plays of Helplessness, and Hope, as the Planet Burns 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z He put the libretto on display at an exhibition, and translated an excerpt into English. A Yiddish Operetta, Once Lost, Will Receive Its Full First Staging in 70 Years 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Gorillaz may still be proceeding with the opera, but Moore's libretto is destined for a more modest stage – a forthcoming issue of literary magazine Strange Attractor. Gorillaz and Alan Moore fall out over opera 2010-06-15T09:07:00Z Opera tends to pull the comic and the tragic pretty firmly in opposite directions, but here humor suffuses the libretto and the lines. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z An ambitious young composer who holds law and music degrees, he wrote a funny, sentimental rhymed libretto with hundreds of footnotes citing legal and operatic precedents and showed it to Scalia and Ginsburg. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The libretto, by the poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine, is inspired by interviews with people around New York who were asked: What does 7 p.m. mean to you? A ‘Mile-Long Opera’ Is Coming to the High Line 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z She had never written an opera libretto, though she said it was on a “bucket list” of things she hoped someday to accomplish. Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Stitching together the pieces, Barry Kleinbort’s witty libretto, read mostly by Mr. Skinner, related the history of Berlin’s often fraught relationship with Hollywood and emphasized his hard-nosed business acumen. Review: ‘All Dancing! All Singing! Irving Berlin in Hollywood,’ a Lighter-Than-Air Revue 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z The spare flexibility that O’Hara introduces mostly works, even if the libretto’s specificity of place and situation gets sacrificed in this more abstract vision. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z With a libretto assembled from Sean Ashton’s novel “Living in a Land,” it expresses only the things its characters haven’t done. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z I praised the considerable beauties of its instrumental music and set pieces but complained about the protracted recitatives, the “long, arid patches of spoken narration” and the “precious, self-indulgent libretto by Robert Gordon.” Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z “Comedy on the Bridge,” with a Czech libretto by the composer, written in 1935 as a work for radio, has become Martinu’s most performed chamber opera. Gotham Chamber Opera Opens Season 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Also, the libretto is strewn with Christian moralizing that can seem at odds with such a brutal pagan crime story. Review: In Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia,’ a Savage Act With Resonance Today 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Davis’s distinctive way with language was also evident in a libretto she wrote for a transformed and politically corrected version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” presented at New York University’s 80WSE Gallery last week. Vaginal Davis’s Feminist Wall Reliefs Pledge ‘Open Revolt’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z But the oratorio also draws deliberate parallels with the defeat at Culloden of the Jacobite forces by the loyalist armies of the Duke of Cumberland, to whom the libretto is dedicated. Prom 8: Judas Maccabaeus – review 2012-07-20T11:19:00Z And it was like playing table tennis with Michel when we were developing the libretto. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z Still, because it’s a dream, Mr. Michieletto can play loose with the libretto’s stage directions. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z Major recent commissions have included a multifaith Requiem to commemorate the destruction of Dresden; a piece for the Rascher Saxophone Quartet and women’s choir; and “Gogol,” a three-act opera set to her own libretto. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z The libretto for "Kolo't" interweaves Ladino ballads and poems with a letter from a Holocaust survivor, describing the Nazi destruction of an ancient Sephardic community in Thessaloniki, Greece. MOR marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with Ladino concert 2011-05-06T17:56:05Z She tapped a friend and colleague, playwright Erik Ehn, the former head of the theater program at California Institute of the Arts to write the libretto. How 'Arrested Development' and a Santa Ana residency led composer Lisa Bielawa to make an online opera 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The libretto, like those of the seven other operas he went on to write, was his own. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z But the staging feels needlessly unfocused — the libretto is more literal-minded than you would have known by seeing this presentation — and doesn’t give enough assistance to a work that, while intriguing and accomplished, needs it. Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z “They might tell themselves, ‘I need to build an opera, therefore the songs must be in Italian, my climax has to look a certain way, my libretto has to sound a this way.’” A Police Bombing, Homes on Fire and an Opera That Grapples With It All 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The Met presents the piece in an English translation of the German libretto as a family entertainment. ‘The Nutcracker’ Still Out-Dazzles ‘Hansel and Gretel’ 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Anna Gregory's smart Punch and Judy-style production, based on her own loose adaptation of the libretto, turned most of the venue's limitations to her advantage. Pagliacci ? review 2011-03-02T19:40:01Z And the season opened last week with one of Mr. Pasatieri’s most performed operas, “The Seagull,” with a libretto by the poet and writer Kenward Elmslie, adapted from the Chekhov play. Music Review: Amorous Confusion in Pasatieri?s Adaptation of Chekhov?s Play 2010-09-27T21:44:00Z The “whisper opera” libretto presents prosaic, personal thoughts gathered from sources like Twitter feeds and Tumblr posts. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z The two events coincide: He enlisted Aug. 14; on Aug. 29, the Library of Congress registered his libretto. Unpublished Raymond Chandler work discovered 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z At Harvard, the musician studied literature and is one of the rare composers who writes his own librettos. Composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is tapped to join L.A. Opera as an artist in residence 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The Arizona and Utah landscapes influenced libretto and music. Nico Muhly, Composer of ?Dark Sisters? and ?Two Boys? 2011-11-04T15:23:56Z “I finished the libretto a year ago, at a time when it still seemed unlikely that Donald Trump would be president,” Mr. Ignatius said in a telephone interview. A Machiavellian Opera for Trump-Era Issues of Truth and Lies 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Hampton’s libretto is an artful adaptation of his play, adding some choral and ensemble scenes that wouldn’t work in spoken theater and that also underline the parallels between the two acts. ‘Appomattox’: A superb night at the opera 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z In his autobiography Zweig praised even music critics for “once more and for the last time” demonstrating “their inner resistance to the race theory” by praising his libretto. Review: 'A Silent Woman' With a Big Voice 2010-07-27T11:30:00Z Every word of the opera’s text comes from Nietzsche, but Mr. Rihm has strung the bits together to make an allegorical libretto. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z In “Samson,” Handel set a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, based on “Samson Agonistes” and other poems of Milton, that — like “Elijah” — pits its Israelite protagonist against worshipers of false gods. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Performs Handel’s ‘Samson’ 2014-03-05T22:05:31Z Also a poet, Ms. Lash wrote her own libretto. Remaking a Dark Tale, With Real-Life Notes 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z Ms. Rourke’s clever, quirky libretto, easy to follow and hard to resist, tidies up some of the original opera’s messy bits. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z It was not a success: the German libretto was clunky, its dramatic pacing inconsistent. Henze: Gogo no Eiko 2010-05-06T21:15:00Z The libretto by Savyon Liebrecht, based on her play, leaps fluidly from the 1920s to the 1970s and from Germany to Israel and America. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z You could hear that grave things were supposed to be happening to Gunn’s dark-voiced character, but the libretto’s way of being moving was evoking newborns or the voices of children. Review | In space, no one can hear you snore: Multimedia ‘Hubble Cantata’ is a dud 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z They portray characters identified in the libretto — sung here in English — by generic titles like Wealthy Mommy and Workaholic. Operatic day at the beach evokes climate crisis 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The record, released this month by the British label Warp, is of course libretto free, mostly dispensing with vocals in favor of complex, often orchestral arrangements. MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z The violinist and composer Layale Chaker, who was born in France and raised in Lebanon, is writing the music, to a libretto by Lisa Schlesinger, a playwright, activist and educator from New York. Opera About Refugee Children to Premiere at Spoleto Festival 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z “Can’t we find our way back to the garden where we began?” pleads the libretto of “A Quiet Place.” ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Mr. Nelson, the author of some 50 plays, adaptations and musical librettos, began writing the Apple plays on a commission for the Public Theater. Richard Nelson Tweaks ‘Sorry’ at the Public for Election Day 2012-11-05T23:29:19Z In approaching his first libretto Mr. Karam researched the form as deeply as he did the content. Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z Recognized as a major literary achievement of the era, Radnóti’s poems form the spine of Mason’s libretto for “The Parting.” A new opera, commissioned by a Seattle group, brings to life the works of a Jewish Hungarian poet who died in the Holocaust 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z History, however, is liberally blended with fantasy in the work, which has a libretto based on “Mary Stuart,” Friedrich Schiller’s 1800 play about a fictitious meeting between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Joyce DiDonato Takes On ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Met 2012-12-30T05:03:03Z I was eager for the chance to hear Wagner’s German libretto performed in the excellent English translation by Richard Stokes. Music Review: A Wagnerian Quest in Proper English 2011-02-17T22:57:54Z “What is being performed here is very much inspired by the original score, the original theatrical intentions of the libretto,” Mr. Nagano said. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z And Ms. McFall’s libretto, for all its poetic beauties, is laden down with metaphor and symbolism. Music Review: ?Amelia? Has Its Premiere at the Seattle Opera 2010-05-09T22:10:00Z Arthur Laurents wrote the book, but Robbins’s choreography is the true libretto. Jerome Robbins: You’re Missed in This ‘West Side Story,’ Daddy-o 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z His credits also include the Broadway musicals “Aida” and “Tarzan” and the 2002 revival of “Flower Drum Song,” as well as many opera librettos. David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage Joining Columbia Playwriting Faculty 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The film was never made, but Arnold saw its operatic potential and Mendoza used his screenplay to create the opera libretto. Maclom Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold 2012-10-11T10:57:48Z Though the story is based on a one-act vaudeville play about a count and a band of knights who infiltrate a convent, the French libretto alters and expands the story. Whose Version of Rossini? Scholar Disagrees With the Met 2011-04-08T19:41:26Z This avant-garde German director first proposed to cut and alter Wagner’s libretto and edit into the opera excerpts from other works. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z But what makes “Fellow Travelers” such a satisfying operatic experience is the old-fashioned combination of a swift-flowing and deft libretto and gorgeous music. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z He branched into writing theater criticism, newspaper columns, librettos and short stories. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z For his French libretto Mr. Glass simply trimmed and adapted the Cocteau screenplay. Recordings: A New Recording of Philip Glass?s Opera ?Orph?e? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z “I am convinced that Hans has written a masterpiece,” he wrote in a letter quoted in the complete edition of his librettos with Kallman. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z How would London's operagoers react to a libretto full of expletives? The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z Probably 50 percent of the libretto is taken directly from the book. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z He also published a vast series of librettos of French, German and Italian operas, painstakingly indicating the pronunciation of every word by means of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The store has 20 staff members, most of them part time, and stocks more than 20,000 titles, including plays in translation and musical libretti from popular Broadway plays. Rent Hike Hits Beloved Drama Book Shop 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The libretto will be adapted from the play by Ian Burton. ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z If the libretto mutes some of the prince of Denmark’s turbulent vacillation, the music restores it. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Older histories tended to view opera as a written text: a score and a libretto. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z While not speaking German, Glass said working to Rainer Mennicken's libretto in that language was no problem because `'I knew the grammar and I just plugged in the words. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z In the first scene, rather than shaving his officious captain, as indicated in the libretto, Wozzeck here is operating a small movie camera that projects cartoonish images of people on a small screen. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z "Thebans," based on the tragedies of Sophocles, is a first opera from composer Julian Anderson, with libretto by Irish playwright Frank McGuinness. Terry Gilliam to direct Berlioz opera at ENO 2013-05-01T13:53:08Z Rather than a straightforward bio-opera, Bates says, the libretto by Mark Campbell is “shattered chronologically”; he refers to the work as “a pixelated opera.” A composer offers the field just what it needs 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He recently wrote the libretto for “Blue,” an opera about a Harlem couple dealing with the death of their teenage son. Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z In addition to the two composers, a half-dozen singers will perform the libretto, drawn from the computer text that Dr. Engelbart displayed on the auditorium screen to illustrate the power of his new computing system. The Musical ‘The Demo’ at Stanford Recreates the Dawn of the Digital Age 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” is based on a memoir by Charles Blow, an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, with a libretto by the writer and director Kasi Lemmons. The Met Will Stage Its First Opera by a Black Composer 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Sharp’s libretto was inspired by Benjamin’s letters and texts, including major works like “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” “The Task of the Translator” and “The Arcades Project.” Elliott Sharp’s ‘Port Bou,’ an Opera About Walter Benjamin 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The production, by Jonathan Miller, updates the action from vaguely medieval times to an oppressively grand 19th-century manor house and gives us glimpses of numerous members of the household who aren't in the original libretto. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z This collaboration led to “Gaia,” a spellbinding symphonic poem featuring Spalding’s vocals and libretto, premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2013. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z There are no traces of the meadows, or the woodland murmurs the libretto refers to. Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z I don’t think even Mozart realized how deeply he had managed to probe below the comic surface of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Hampton went back and reworked the libretto into a play that incorporated the civil rights era; Glass was eager to revise the opera as well. ‘Appomattox’: A superb night at the opera 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Still, his videos acutely explore themes of the opera, even specific words from the libretto — fire, water, night, light, certain kinds of gazes — to mesmerizing effect. Operas Filled With Forbidden Love in Madrid 2014-01-28T13:02:07Z And the music by composer Kevin Puts, setting a fast-paced, trilingual libretto by Mark Campbell, conveys this mood with considerable power, especially when the impassioned voices of the young soldiers blend in song. Eloquent WWI opera in East Coast premiere in Pa. 2013-02-10T14:25:13Z Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto with Mr. Adès, also directs. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z His new opera, “Girls of the Golden West,” which will open in San Francisco in November, again has a collage libretto by Mr. Sellars, drawn from primary sources. She Gave Words to Opera’s Nixon 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Set in the Swiss Alps, the libretto tells of an innocent bride whose picture-postcard existence veers tragically off course when she sleepwalks into the bedroom of a visiting nobleman. Mary Zimmerman?s ?Armida,? With Ren?e Fleming, at Met 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z It retains the opera’s music — even its aria-and-recitative format — but freely riffs on Da Ponte’s libretto in English and Spanish, with slang-filled lyrics that move the action to a Beverly Hills mansion today. Music Review: Call It ‘The Green Card of Figaro,’ With Thanks to Mozart 2013-06-16T21:49:33Z At the beginning of acts and during the final ballet, texts drawn from or inspired by contemporaneous writers attacking Cortés’s fanaticism were projected as if they were Moralez’s thoughts, offsetting the laudatory libretto. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z With an English-language libretto by Joël Pommerat, based on his own French play, the new opera proved to be an intriguing but murky piece about achieving independence from one’s father. Opera Review: Natalie Dessay, Becoming Violetta 2011-07-19T11:00:05Z Yet despite passages of affecting dialogue and poetic quotations from Gospels and Psalms, the libretto is long and wordy and sounds even more so in Mr. Adamo’s often ponderous musical setting. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z Undaunted by this relative dearth, or maybe stimulated by it, Zambello called the playwright Ken Ludwig last summer to ask if he would be interested in writing the libretto for the project. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Still, Raffo's libretto does a careful and sensitive job of distilling experience. Long Beach Opera's 'Fallujah' tackles the Iraq war with authentic anguish 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But he has noticed that audiences tend to lose interest more quickly in modern updates — such as Mayer’s “Rigoletto,” set in 1960s Las Vegas instead of the libretto’s 16th-century Italy. The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The director Keith Warner keeps things conceptually straightforward, yet focuses on the libretto’s complexities. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In social media postings, New York composer Daniel Roumain said Sunday he was commissioned to write one of four libretti for a “Greenwood Overcomes” concert scheduled for a May 1 performance by the Tulsa Opera. Tulsa Opera fires composer of Greenwood massacre piece 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z The libretto is beautiful and subtle, most of it taken directly from Pushkin, retaining the complexity of his verse rather than simplifying it, as librettos tend to. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z Mr. Pinsky’s libretto for “Death and the Powers” tells the story of the “gajillionaire” Simon Powers, whose ambition is to cheat death more completely than any of the lotus eaters of the Côte d’Azur. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z Aucoin and Ruhl wrote to each other for several years about turning the poetry of her play into a libretto, building character through music, and understanding the strengths and limitations of opera. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “It’s hard to say that writing an opera libretto is more important.” She Gave Words to Opera’s Nixon 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The libretto was written by Dawn Lundy Martin, a poet and assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh whom Ms. Shields discovered online years ago. Yams Collective Brings Work to Whitney Biennial 2014-02-21T23:23:23Z The libretto is full of offensive moments like this. Vogue Dancers Subvert a Baroque Spectacle at the Paris Opera 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z He has written five volumes of poetry, several non-fiction books on literature and philosophy, opera librettos, and twelve volumes of essays. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z The second act in particular weaves a moody, creepy spell, with fish and trees in dress suits and a bevy of bobble-headed chefs in place of the libretto’s angels. ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ a Family Holiday Treat at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z That work was billed as a “family opera in one act,” but much of the profanity-heavy “Champion” libretto isn’t suitable for a family newspaper. Music Review: ‘Champion’ at Opera Theater of Saint Louis 2013-06-21T20:58:09Z Little is also developing “Black Lodge,” a filmed opera with a libretto by poet Anne Waldman. Perspective | As the novelty of Zoom wears off, classical music reluctantly embraces its new virtual reality 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z At intermission, Ms. Hedren said that she was liking it very much, but found it difficult to understand the singing, even though the libretto is in English. Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock’s ‘Marnie,’ Loves the Met’s Opera 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Ruhl’s libretto is already a fanciful intervention into the classic myth, so Ms. Zimmerman felt, she said, “like we have to lean into the thing that it is.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Instead of shifting the action to an alley outside Rigoletto’s house, as the libretto indicates, Mr. Mayer keeps Rigoletto at the casino after everyone leaves and the lights are dimmed. Music Review: An Unsteady ‘Rigoletto’ Rat Pack 2013-01-29T13:33:55Z All this makes “JFK” less a biography than a love story, about a couple that Mr. Vavrek’s smart libretto calls “too perfect, too alliterative.” ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z He wrote the libretto for Virgil Thomson’s third and last opera, “Lord Byron,” commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Jack Larson, a Playwright Better Known as Jimmy Olsen in ‘Superman,’ Dies at 87 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s an odd juxtaposition, the soaring European librettos and crumbling Middle Eastern walls. In Israel, Opera Echoes From Rocks and Ruins 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Just as blandly ominous were Arlene Sierra’s music and Lucy Thurber’s libretto for “Faustine,” a feminist retelling of the Faust story. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z Only about half of the words in the libretto come through. Review: In ‘The Rape of Lucretia,’ a Woman Done In by Self-Blame 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “So we were able to exploit a variety of ways to make a libretto work.” Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z Pierce’s libretto artfully brings the women into even closer proximity than in the novel or film, enabling Puts to create, for example, gorgeous close-harmony duets for Virginia and Laura. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z He asked if I'd like to write a libretto for Gawain. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z And Ms. Goodman’s poetic libretto, though often enigmatic, is powerfully so. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The original libretto was in French, which I personally prefer to the Italian version used at the Met, but that is a minor quibble. The Met's Don Carlo: Verdi's Masterpiece, for Everyone 2010-12-10T21:50:00Z But the strengths of Bouilly’s libretto and its resonance in different times of political oppression are immediately apparent. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Frank’s score, like the libretto, mostly avoids obvious choices, with only flashes of traditional Mexican music. In San Francisco, a Week of Destination Opera 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Where the production gets more specific is in its departures from the libretto: its absence of caricature and villainy, its climactic dance of death instead a scene of stillness and life continuing in agony. Review: Two Sopranos Make an ‘Elektra’ Both Mythic and Human 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z The libretto, taken from Shakespeare and translated into French, has been translated back into English again, with additional lengthy spoken dialogues and monologues that weren’t in Berlioz’s opera. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z I took the libretto literally: what Rigoletto says about the Duke, the Duke is like an animal. Sin City Duke: Met moves `Rigoletto' to Las Vegas 2013-01-23T18:25:11Z The evening before, at the “The Other Conquest,” Caprice will perform excerpts from “Motezuma” followed by the world premiere of “La Conquista,” with a score by Armienta and libretto by Sánchez. Seattle poet Raul Sanchez lends his words to a unique music project 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Roumain balked, however, when Opera officials wanted him to remove the final line from his “They Still Want To Kill Us” libretto. Tulsa Opera fires composer of Greenwood massacre piece 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Inspired, of course, by the painting and set to a libretto by Beatrice von Dovsky, this opera traces a fictional story of the picture’s theft and return, set to von Schillings’s lyrical score. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z His clever, literate and perceptive libretto for “Anna Nicole” bops along in rhymed couples, thick with alliterative, everyday profanities. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z He turned his “Appomattox” libretto into a more sweeping drama that delved more deeply into the civil rights era and its contemporary resonances. Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Then Still wrote another opera, “Troubled Island,” about the Haitian revolution, with a libretto by the poet Langston Hughes. A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z In the early 1970s, when the maverick American composer Lou Harrison first prepared “Young Caesar” — an opera with a libretto by Robert Gordon — he ran into homophobic headwinds. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z But of this there is no doubt: The opera, with a libretto by Shanley and music by Douglas J. Cuomo, makes for a gripping 2 1/2 hours of theater. New opera's success is beyond `Doubt' 2013-01-27T21:59:08Z “The overarching goal was to take the libretto as seriously as the music,” Mr. Jacobs said. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The opera's libretto by Alice Goodman and its score by Adams have been closely scrutinized, and critics have come to divergent opinions. New York's Met Opera braces for 'Death of Klinghoffer' protests 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z He walks away, leaving a single candle burning as the curtain closes, a nod toward the libretto’s fire that captures the emotions of the music and the moment in a fresh light. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Harnick also became an accomplished opera translator, providing English librettos for classical works like Lehar’s “The Merry Widow,” Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” and Bizet’s “Carmen.” Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The “Ring” and its mythically based libretto, written by Wagner in the middle of the 19th century and then put to music over the next quarter century, is a fruitful mine of interpretation. ArtsBeat: A Place to Talk About the "Ring" by Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-04-06T17:04:47Z In addition, Albert Ostermaier’s libretto appears to adopt a deliberately obfuscatory style, even to the point of dispensing with punctuation and uppercase letters in the printed text and supertitles. Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z And the historical backdrop is given intriguing tweaks in this libretto. Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z But he knew what he was doing, and the libretto is full of puns about being "in" or "penetrating" the hill of Venus that were not lost on its first admirers. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z Many opponents single out a few lines in the libretto by Alice Goodman, who also collaborated with Adams on the earlier “Nixon in China.” The (controversial) ‘Klinghoffer’ show will go on at The Met 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Claudel’s libretto, sung here in the original French, intersperses poignancy with a strong element of satire. Music Review: Baltimore Symphony?s ?Joan of Arc,? at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-21T23:30:10Z Before Kepler was hatched, she wrote historical fiction; he wrote novels, plays and one opera libretto. A Monster in the Mold of Hannibal Lecter Haunts ‘The Sandman’ 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z I struggle with its listless pace; its largely flat characters; the way its libretto, by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, prefers telling us what people are thinking rather than showing it. Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z In turn, Thompson, an accomplished playwright and director, credits Tesori for guiding him through writing his first libretto, especially her keen skills as an editor. ‘Blue’ is the opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can’t 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Handel was lucky to get, in Vincenzo Grimani’s gleefully wicked text, that rarity in opera history: a libretto with dramatic focus, ambivalent characters and worldly humor. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The project seemed more promising still when it was announced that Ms. Proulx would be writing the libretto, her first effort in this genre. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z I wrote what I felt worked best with the libretto to bring it to the audience. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z First fashioned for Vienna, the libretto and roles were retailored for Paris and Naples. Music Review: At Caramoor, Fanning Donizetti?s Flames in ?Maria di Rohan? 2010-07-27T00:05:00Z It was politically pointed and daring musically, reimagining the libretto as reflecting a Europe being redrawn politically and racially by the arrival of Middle Eastern emigrants and by terrorism. Why do music festivals matter? For an answer, America, look to Salzburg 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Beyond that, simply judged by its intellectual brilliance, poetic clarity and incisive character portraits, “The Bassarids” is one of opera’s great literary librettos. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z The refrain is picked up by other residents, the spoken words sliding imperceptibly into song as Adam Cork’s score becomes a libretto of sidewalk anxiety. Review: 5 Murdered Prostitutes and an Anxious City in ‘London Road’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The ballet follows the musical libretto rather than the myth by Apuleius, and Mr. Ratmansky is wonderfully responsive to the score’s glowing, undulating tonalities. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Short of supertitles, reportedly beyond the company’s financial reach, an opera-style libretto might be a workable option for English-speaking audience members. | 'En el Tiempo de las Mariposas': Resisting Trujillo While Staying Stylish 2011-02-22T00:00:10Z Permission from the Leigh and Wheeler estates came next, and Mr. Pockriss gave his permission, as well as a few songs that had been dropped from the libretto 40 years ago. Weekend Miser: A Musical Version of ?Gatsby,? Four Decades Late 2011-09-29T21:43:04Z Denk's opera libretto makes clear, no one owns the Classical style any longer. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z In one version of the libretto Wagner’s stage directions have the assembled men and women watching the conflagration “in speechless dismay”; in another they view the scene “moved to the very depths of their being.” Music Review: A ‘Ring’ Fit for a Time of Austerity 2012-07-17T12:00:00Z There are places where the music goes against the grain of the libretto, and places where the staging goes against the grain of both.” Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Nigel Maister’s libretto is based in part on the writings of the Victorian adventurer and Egyptologist Amelia Edwards and takes place in 19th-century Egypt and ancient Nubia as well as the present day. Joshua Bell at Caramoor, and Alarm Will Sound at the Met 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Based on a memoir by Charles M. Blow, a Times Op-Ed columnist, and with a libretto by Kasi Lemmons, it will be the first work by a Black composer ever presented by the Met. For the Met Opera, the Pandemic Could Be a Necessary Reset 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Part of the Meet the Artist Saturdays series at Lincoln Center, “Little Red Riding Hood” features a vocal score and libretto by Seymour Barab. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:21:44Z The screenplay was a libretto to which he provided the soaring, swinging, and searing cinematic music. What to Stream: “Tucker: The Man and His Dream,” a Slyly Personal Francis Ford Coppola Film 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z As the libretto for “A Choral Fantasy” declares: “And all a choir of spirits resounds in response,” this meeting of dance and music is reciprocal. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM Opera House 2012-03-03T00:04:35Z It’s ripe dramatic material, with an essential larger-than-life character in Mr. Ali and an apt balance of humor and pathos in the libretto. Music Review: ‘Approaching Ali’ by D. J. Sparr at Kennedy Center 2013-06-10T21:43:12Z The libretto tells us it is part of her strategy to win Belfiore, but the music proclaims her sincerity. 2010-02-03T04:38:00Z Woolf’s imaginary interaction with a contemporary male novelist who speaks about how much she’s meant to him — an invention of the libretto — is cloying and overwrought, drenched in bells. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z And while Jonathan Dove's incantatory music is beautifully sung, it is impossible to hear the libretto. Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 – review 2012-07-21T23:05:39Z For Mr. Kahane, allowing the 1930s to speak for itself involved reading the guides and transcribing intriguing passages into a massive document, which he condensed and edited into a libretto. Orpheus to Play Kahane’s ‘Gabriel’s Guide to 48 States’ 2013-04-19T18:57:59Z The opera premiered in 1956 on Broadway with a score by Leonard Bernstein and a libretto by Lillian Hellman. Kelsey Grammer and Christine Ebersole take the L.A. Opera stage for 'Candide' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Still, the libretto leaves much to be interpreted. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The singers sounded like they were interrogating every syllable of Wagner’s libretto even when Mr. Lepage appeared to be looking no further than the description of each scene’s setting. The Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ Works Best From the Cheap Seats 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The poems slowly coalesced into a jigsaw of a libretto. 50 great moments in jazz: Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill 2011-01-18T13:06:04Z In its original French, the opera is a luscious wallow in melancholy and opacity; its libretto, by Maurice Maeterlinck, verges on impenetrability in its portrayal of star-crossed love and fratricide. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z “If we listen to it just as an opera, and close our eyes and don’t read the libretto, it’s a good opera,” he said. Metropolitan Opera to Present ‘Klinghoffer’ Monday in Spite of Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z All of this clearly lies behind Jocelyn’s evident sense of freedom in refashioning the text, which in any case would have had to be reduced in length to serve as the libretto. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z “No room at the inn,” the libretto summarizes. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z The cast, singing Norman Tucker’s English translation of Janacek’s own Czech libretto, is excellent. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z Whole stretches of Mr. Kushner’s arresting dialogue, afire with political diatribes, are gone from the opera’s compact English libretto. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z His libretto is sprinkled with allusions to some of these favorite poems, as his hero shores himself against ruin with quotes from W.B. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z It is true that Mozart’s operatic career was largely defined by his ability to choose his own librettos. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z The period tracked with the libretto’s dukes and duchesses while allowing Sher to explore “how a corrupt leadership infects a culture, infects how wealth and privilege dominate and squish people below it.” The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Based on a Grimm fairy tale, with libretto by Arthur Yorinks, the story involves a woman who comes to fear and resent her stepson, arranging to kill and feed him to his father. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z She would quote a line back to you from a libretto — in the original language! Ruth Bader Ginsburg Loved Opera, and Opera Loved Her Back 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Albert Boadella, a leading Spanish playwright and theater director, said he found Mr. Ollé to be at his best adapting works like those of Wagner, rather than operas with a more “intimate” libretto. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Chandler, who was born in America, raised in England and moved back to the U.S. after college, registered the libretto with the Library of Congress in 1917. Unpublished Raymond Chandler work discovered 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z But alas, I am a critic, and I cannot gloss over the fact that ultimately, there is a kind of pervading, overall flattening of Steve Jobs’ story in Campbell’s libretto. ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’ is a user-friendly opera that plays better with audiences than critics. Does it matter? 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In his new book Mr. McClatchy pays tribute to the librettos of the Mozart operas by rendering the lines into English verse equivalents that capture some of the poetic richness and humor of the originals. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z “He’s very invested in, and interested in, the narrative information that is conveyed through music that is unrelated to the libretto.” ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Be warned that song texts and opera librettos have to be downloaded from mozart225.com. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Greg Pierce’s libretto is concise, and it’s colorful and just beautifully wrought. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Even the text breaks down: The projected supertitles, set in a coder’s font and all lowercase, flicker between lines of libretto, with the letters in words often missing as the Officer’s hopes are increasingly dashed. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. McClatchy’s respect for the original librettos comes through in his often elegant translations. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z It is perhaps best thought of as a sound environment, and a forbidding one, in keeping with the story by Hans Christian Andersen that serves as its inspiration and basic libretto. Spoleto Festival Premieres Follow Somber Reflection 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Because there is no dialogue in the book, much of the libretto is invented. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z She blended two different texts to craft the libretto: a Homeric siren song and a portion of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Either way, Strand’s libretto bogs down in the predictable scenes of Jack and Mabel’s struggles with the land, and their irritation with each other. Review | ‘Snow Child’ at Arena Stage fails to melt hearts 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z But when will some major company do a full staging of his final opera, “Lord Byron,” with a libretto by the poet, playwright and actor Jack Larson? Copland, Thomson and Others in a Fantasy Music Festival 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z At the start of Act IV, the libretto tells us, “We journey back to the lakeside of the Principal Dancer’s mind.” Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z It is not a nice sex scene between Alma, the nurse, and a character just called Man in Jay Scheib’s libretto. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Shortly after the album was released, Faust got a staging at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, and then at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, with David Mamet reshaping the libretto. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z They do not simply accompany the libretto but also reveal the subconscious feelings of the characters or what will happen later in the story. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Verdi revised the opera several times, making cuts, translating the French libretto into Italian, leaving a confused legacy of revisions. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2022 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z This medieval romance is saddled with a creaky libretto, but musically it is full of treasures, hinted at in the popular overture. Russell Platt: Classical Music This Summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Since then, he has worked on a range of projects, including sell-out performances at this summer's Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, and he is writing a libretto for an opera to be staged in Oslo. Free drama of popular protest rocks London stage 2011-08-31T12:37:39Z Mr. Adams and Mr. Sellars collaborated on the elusive libretto, which uses Spanish and Latin texts as well as English. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Warlikowski is otherwise largely deferential to the libretto — with a few affecting interventions. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The parallels between the King-Riggs match and the 2016 presidential debates were not lost on Karpman and Collins, who wrote the bulk of the libretto against the backdrop of the presidential election. Why it took two women to write 'Balls,' the opera about Billie Jean King's 'Battle of the Sexes' 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z His librettos, most of which he wrote, had little conventional plot. Robert Ashley, Opera Composer Who Painted Outside the Lines, Dies at 83 2014-03-07T03:00:51Z The director Anthony Minghella, who was tapped to write the opera’s libretto and direct it, died in 2008 at the age of 54. Osvaldo Golijov’s New Opera for the Met is Called Off 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The opera’s pair of young officers dress up here not as the libretto’s Albanians but as the African mercenaries known as Dubats. Review: Mozart Reimagined in a Violent, Racist World 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z These days, the received wisdom about creating an opera is that you hammer the libretto into shape and then add music. WNO’s ‘An American Soldier’ by Huang Ruo performs its mission honorably The opera's libretto is taken from the play by Oscar Wilde, but forget fin de siècle; those shattering last few bars are most definitely fin du monde. Salome: Strauss' heroine for the new century 2013-01-18T09:51:11Z The opera’s German libretto, also by Braunfels, is based on German translations of historical French and Latin documents regarding Joan of Arc’s trial. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z Once she handed the libretto to Blanchard, he set it to music with few changes. Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In the libretto Don Alfonso is described as an old philosopher. Music Review: ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-11-16T23:12:47Z Harrison Birtwistle had embedded David Harsent's starkly poetic libretto in music that wove beauty and visceral force together almost impossibly tightly. The Minotaur – review 2013-01-18T15:08:55Z Ravenhill has returned the compliment by writing a libretto about the great plague of London, taking inspiration from Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe and Susan Sontag's polemical work, Aids and Its Metaphor. Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit 2011-07-18T20:31:01Z These horrors aren’t imagined; Mr. Sellars assembled the libretto from historical texts, including journals, poems and folk song lyrics of the time. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z He wrote that libretto; thanks to Ruhl’s lucidity, “Eurydice,” first heard in February 2020 at Los Angeles Opera, is a clearer, stronger work. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But hopefully this is a transitional work for Adams, away from those patchwork pieces with Sellars and toward other styles of libretto, adapted or original, more compelling than this. Review: In ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ John Adams Goes Conventional 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z A quick glance at the librettos suggested a lineup of a political fanatic, a religious nut, two slightly neurotic beauties, a slutty broad and a taciturn man who practices Zen meditation. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z The libretto ends with Samson, summoning his lost strength through prayer, pushing apart the columns of the temple and destroying everyone within. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Campbell’s imaginative libretto gives everyday conversation some wistful, poetic touches. Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z Donizetti, using an Italian translation of a libretto by Rousseau, presents Pygmalion in a near-suicidal agony of desire. Review: Ahead of ‘My Fair Lady,’ Two Operatic Pygmalions 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Liszt commissioned an Italian libretto and worked on the opera between 1849 and 1852, when he became preoccupied with other projects. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z In the libretto, the opera opens in a village on the shores of Lake Lucerne, where Tell lives in a tight-knit community under Austrian occupation. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Young singers, usually in groups of about 35, are given instruction in role development, language and analyzing librettos. Music Review: ‘Falstaff,’ Part of Prelude to Performance at Kaye Playhouse 2012-07-15T21:49:41Z Before he took to science fiction, Verne provided librettos for Parisian operetta, and Pip Leckenby's design has a velvet-swagged, vaudevillian look. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 2010-06-02T21:01:00Z But there is something very zen about the compression of words in an opera libretto: when I look at my plays now, I find them far too chatty. Mark Ravenhill's debut opera goes for the gut 2010-08-04T20:45:00Z On Saturday, Long Beach Opera will stage its second and final performance of “The Perfect American,” composed by Philip Glass with a libretto by Rudy Wurlitzer. How would the death of the NEA affect your community? California can cite 162 ways 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z A full German libretto is included in the booklet, but there's no English version, so it's just as well the synopsis is translated. Glanert: Caligula 2010-04-29T21:10:00Z In “The Nose,” Shostakovich, who fashioned the libretto with three other writers, does the opposite. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z Mr. Wellman’s own work no longer receives the attention it once did, although he’s still writing plays, as well as poetry, novels and opera librettos. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The child of Brünnhilde and Siegfried, not in Wagner’s libretto, died in last year’s version but now escapes the apocalyptic finale. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The original libretto, says Graney, “is inherently racist. . . . It was very important for us to get away from the Orientalism.” A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The puppets speak in English when not singing, and the libretto is a mischievous combination of traditional dialogue with contemporary double entendres, often sly, sometimes risqué. Review: 'Pulcinella Vendicato' is puppet opera at its magical best 2010-04-27T00:45:00Z Ms. Rankine said that she assembled her contribution of the libretto — her words are spoken, while Ms. Carson’s are sung — by interviewing people about their tables. In ‘The Mile-Long Opera,’ All the High Line’s a Stage 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Tines has other projects in progress, including “The Black Clown,” which he is writing the libretto for as well as playing the title role. At 29, this 'El Niño' singer is the buzz of California's opera world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Hertzberg, who also wrote the libretto, said in a program note that the Barnes had always seemed to him less a museum than a “strange and wondrous temple exhumed from outside of time.” 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z It's a wonder Britten didn't return the entire libretto to sender. Gloriana; 66th Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-22T23:05:50Z The libretto draws on narratives of the founding of the Roman republic. Il Trionfo di Clelia – review 2012-06-25T15:51:28Z The singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright dropped out in a dispute over the language of his libretto — he wanted French; the Met wanted English. 2010-02-12T18:56:00Z “It looked like a libretto,” she said, “with monologues that could obviously be arias and lots of witty banter with a great sense of rhythm that composers can get into.” From the Underworld to Our World: An Opera About Frida and Diego 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z There’s more than a casual nod to the macabre darkness of “Sweeney Todd” in Campbell’s libretto. Perspective | How do you get an audience excited for opera? It’s the vision thing. 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Sofi Oksanen’s libretto reveals its mysteries gradually, as it moves fluidly among years, languages and relationships — with a cast of 13 singers and actors, each identifiable by a unique musical palette. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The story, to a libretto by Felice Romani, which Rossini completed in great haste, as usual, when he was only 22, is as mad as it is immoral. Il turco in Italia; Felicity Lott, London Conchord Ensemble 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z He didn’t think it would take much to turn it into a libretto: The script is plain-spoken, concise and naturally musical. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The Tempest,” with a libretto by Mr. Porter, had its premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in 1985. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z A translation of an opera libretto must fit exactly the rhythm, bounce and flow of the existing melodic lines, which the composer matched to the words of the original language. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z The original libretto documented history from the middle ages to the second world war through the eyes of women, via a cast of characters including witch-hunters, plague victims and war workers. The dark and brilliant world of Gaggle 2010-12-06T16:51:00Z There’s this buildup, and that text is cut up and put together and the new text is delivered with music and that new text is an opera libretto. Has former NEA target Ron Athey bled enough for his art? He's back with a new happening at the Broad 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The libretto mutated over four years, from a more dramatic narrative using, at one point, a journalist character as a framing device. Chelsea Manning as opera: Story of transgender WikiLeaks figure unfolds in 'The Source' 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Great composers wrote vocal lines that hewed to the sounds and flow of the words in the libretto, and that bond is hard to mimic even in the best translations. Review: Gifted Singers and an English Translation Enhance a Janacek Opera 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The nonlinear, associative libretto by Yona Kim — who also directed the gripping staging, set in what seems to be a decaying 19th-century salon — swerves from Berlin to Moscow and from Paris to Riga. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z “Ocean’s Kingdom,” first performed in September, is as plodding as ever: four movements of static choreography by Mr. Martins, along with blandly sweeping music and a convoluted libretto by Mr. McCartney. Dance Review: ?Ocean?s Kingdom? at New York City Ballet - Review 2012-01-21T00:29:19Z Among the people the Dutchman meets at the bar is Daland — in the libretto a sea captain and the father of the opera’s heroine, Senta, but here a clean-cut, middle-class man. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Bernstein’s original collaborator on the operetta was the playwright Lillian Hellman, but she eventually withdrew her libretto, and together they enlisted contributions from lyricists including Latouche, Dorothy Parker and, finally, Richard Wilbur. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z He put together a glossary of all the obscure references in the libretto — like “the water of Castalia,” a sacred spring in Delphi — and sent it to the chorus. With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Since some new singers have joined this revival, some aria substitutions and tweaks to the libretto have been made. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:06:12Z You can download the libretto in its entirety . Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art? 2012-08-10T21:30:01Z Hannah Dübgen’s libretto, in German, relates the tale of a wandering monk who takes shelter in a hut that is home to the sister spirits. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z His less-heralded achievements included several opera librettos, including the one for Virgil Thomson’s “Lord Byron.” Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The audience will not be given a libretto or surtitles; seating is limited to 40 each performance; and audio or video recording is forbidden. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z Her aim was to reveal the “philosophical core” of the opera, which has a libretto by Janacek. Music Review: ‘The Cunning Little Vixen,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-04-29T20:13:53Z Copeland's first mistake is to provide his own text; producing a good libretto is in some ways harder than creating the music. OperaShots ? review 2011-04-10T21:01:01Z Shostakovich, who wrote the libretto along with three others, was only 22 when he finished the opera, which had its premiere in Leningrad in 1930. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z Michael Korie’s libretto could have been significantly culled; among other things, the subplot of Micòl’s brother, a closeted gay man longing for his former roommate as his health fails, could have been easily excised. Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z There are no librettos, but there are subtitles. A Maestro?s Four-Decade Evolution 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z The rewritten libretto removes the story to a sleazy, high-rise penthouse where underage girls are on sale and the electrics are dodgy. Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Dudamel; OperaUpClose ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:50Z Almost needless to say, much rewriting was required in a libretto now laden with crudities and trendy references to social media. Lot of Leather in Morningside Opera’s ‘Pergolesi: Power Games’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Thus, the new play was readapted into yet another opera libretto, which followed Hampton’s revisions closely — except, Glass says, “it’s not four hours long.” The war that would not end: Race relations take the opera stage 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “Miss Fortune,” for which Ms. Weir wrote her own libretto, is lightweight stuff but comes across as a diverting morality tale enriched by inventive music. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z When that attitude began to change in the 1940s and 1950s, it wasn’t just because the libretto contained that word. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z Tom Cairns, the director of the production, also wrote the English libretto in collaboration with Mr. Adès. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z “It was like a toddler that was just starting to walk,” said Thompson, for whom “Blue” is his first libretto. ‘Blue,’ an opera on police violence named best new opera, opens in Seattle soon 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z To be successful long term a company needs good designers, choreography, music and libretto, and I am hoping to see that.. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z But the libretto is a masterpiece by one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, and one of France's celebrities, best known simply by her surname –Colette. Colette's libretto: a fantasy of childhood for Ravel's opera of enchantment 2012-07-27T21:49:01Z Having glanced at the lengthy libretto, I mentioned that this character seems like a striking addition to the Braxton operatic canon: a secret agent gifted in karate. Anthony Braxton Composes Together Past, Present and Future 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z He also wrote the script, and he treats it less like a drama than like a libretto. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The intelligent economy of Crimp’s libretto also plays a part: Each word is there for a reason, and the language is often beautiful but seldom flowery. ‘Written on Skin’ brings theater to opera stage 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z But the resulting libretto is effective and often psychologically astute. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z With a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on a play by Schiller, the opera gives a very idealized portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was no slouch when it came to political machinations. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z But when the tenor Vittorio Grigòlo sang the role on Monday evening at the Metropolitan Opera, it felt like the subtitles should have read “I am somebody” rather than the libretto’s “I am nobody.” Review: ‘L’Elisir d’Amore,’ With Vittorio Grigòlo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Requesting the promised libretto from his Paris collaborators, he wrote impatiently, “I cannot work without a poem.” The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z The libretto sets the opera in a prison near Seville, where Florestan, a Spanish nobleman, has been held as a political prisoner by the corrupt prison governor. Review: Spruce and Taut, the Met Opera’s ‘Fidelio’ Looks Good at 17 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Gilbert’s libretto was inspired by a Japanese sword hung on his study wall, and a popular Japan-themed exhibition in London, in 1885, influenced the production. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z And opera librettos often reiterate emotional notes relentlessly. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z It made them, in the words of Ms. Davis’s libretto, “refugees of a battle we won.” At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z With an Italian libretto, the musically rich “Aci” offers early hints of Handel’s instinctive affinity for Italian opera. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z While the story is merely the excuse for a diverting courtly masque, the libretto has wit and charm, and Eccles treats it with generous care. Music Review: Eccles’s ‘Judgment of Paris,’ at Washington Square Festival 2013-07-10T19:59:16Z The original libretto was in German, but Ligeti wanted the text to be translated into the language of the audience hearing it. Music Review: The Philharmonic?s Challenge: Merely the End of the World 2010-05-28T18:13:00Z At one point the libretto calls for a Movement Chorus to appear. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Libertine libretto … R Kelly says he has written a further 85 episodes of hit musical melodrama Trapped in the Closet. R Kelly to unleash Trapped in the Closet on Broadway 2012-11-21T12:58:42Z "The libretto ... is caustically witty, raucous and could only be quoted with care in a family newspaper," he says – without, unfortunately, doing so. What to say about ... the Royal Opera's Anna Nicole 2011-02-21T14:11:26Z For “Doctor Atomic,” the previous collaboration between Mr. Adams and Mr. Sellars, which had its premiere here in 2005, Mr. Sellars also assembled a libretto from poetry, journals and original documents. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The conductor, Riccardo Frizza, said that he was aiming to match the production by bringing out “the modernity of this score,” with a focus on transparency and emphases on certain words in the libretto. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Ackroyd recently wrote a libretto for an opera based on William Hogarth’s engravings — but he never goes to the opera, or to concerts, or the theater. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z The heart of the libretto is its middle scene, an ideological argument that pits Babur's profound understanding of the holy book against his interlocutors' profound ignorance of it. Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art? 2012-08-10T21:30:01Z You're the author of over 100 published novels, not to mention a screenplay, libretto and stage adaptation. V.C. Andrews felt she had "prophetic powers": Longtime ghostwriter on "Flowers in the Attic" author 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Patterned on "La Boheme," Larson's libretto transforms Puccini's penniless, consumptive Paris artists into an omnisexual group of friends living in slum squalor on the streets and in vacant buildings of Alphabet City. 'Rent': Young, robust cast sells 'Rent' revival 2012-07-27T21:03:06Z “Song From the Uproar,” with music and libretto by Missy Mazzoli, was one example, inspired by the journals of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss explorer who traveled on horseback through North Africa. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z By contrast, in Britten's chamber opera, shaped into a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, these phantoms are clothed with words and raised to life through music. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z In the Penal Colony, his 2000 adaptation of Franz Kafka's well-known story to a libretto by Rudolph Wurlitzer, is not one of them. In the Penal Colony 2010-09-19T21:15:00Z Electronic samples on the album, and passages in Mr. Marks’s libretto, memorialize inside jokes and moments in their real-life romance. Making Peace With the Music Left by an Omnivorous Young Composer 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The libretto may not break the toxicity meter, but it is uncomfortably populated by stereotypes, with colonial order valorized as the peaceable solution to a world out of joint. An 18th-Century Opera, Supercharged for Our Time 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The opera, with a libretto by Juan Tovar, was described as the first by a contemporary Mexican composer to be produced by a professional company here. Daniel Cat?n, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62 2011-04-12T02:28:20Z The libretto was based on a minor play by Racine, which was based on various accounts from Roman historical writers. Review | ‘The World Between Empires’ helps dismantle the myths of Rome 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z “I killed a man and the world forgives me,” goes a line in Michael Cristofer’s libretto. More Terence Blanchard Coming to Met Opera After Success of ‘Fire’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Probably unlike the version of this libretto he would have written, however, true tragedy does not strike in Spears and Smith’s telling. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The playwright David Henry Hwang has written libretto that relies on prosaic English rather than attempt a modern poetic representation of Cao’s text. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Vavrek’s libretto for “Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera” was cozily reminiscent of a Christopher Guest film, exploring the bizarre participants in a marginal activity: in this case, the Flemish folk sport of finch-sitting. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z His libretto for Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, in which the character of Public Opinion was clearly modelled on Margaret Thatcher, was performed by English National Opera. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z Its patchwork libretto is drawn from the documents disclosed by Ms. Manning as well as instant messages and bits of interviews. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Rossini also did a major rewriting for an 1826 production in Paris, using a new French libretto. Music Review: A Rossini Masterwork Ahead of Its Time 2012-07-30T22:09:48Z Its musical influences are varied; his libretto, an imagined story about Walt Whitman during the Civil War, seemed more in search of drama than in control of it. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z She told me to send her a bit of material, something that would indicate that I understood the libretto form. My Journey to Writing an Opera About Police Violence 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z For starters, he saw that each player was furnished with a libretto to study in advance. Critic?s Notebook: More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers 2011-04-14T22:02:56Z On the literary side, German speakers routinely wince at the more convoluted passages in Wagner’s librettos and prose writings. Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Sarah Tynan, the only originally scheduled soloist, was agile in the curlicues of coloratura that illustrate the dove cooing to his mate and, in the words of the libretto, “the nightingale’s delightful notes.” Review: Haydn’s ‘Creation’: The Birth of All, With High Hopes at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z For the libretto he uses just a part of Tolstoy’s novel. Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ at Ars Nova 2012-10-17T21:45:22Z His libretto is playful and genuinely funny throughout, despite the foreboding undertone. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Together they repeat lines of seeming nonsense — Roxie Perkins’s libretto is full of the ominously capitalized words of dystopian fiction — and follow eerily precise rules as they try to cure the daughter’s illness. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z True, I scribbled a revised libretto for Me and My Girl, but its international success was entirely down to the mesmerising performances of Robert Lindsay and Emma. Digested read: The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-20T20:00:00Z In Daniela Danz’s libretto, bits of conversation keep recurring but never cohere into a firm story; interludes of spoken narration repeat the facts of the case before the opera returns into misty obscurity. Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The story of “The Last Savage,” with a libretto by Menotti, is chock full of comical complications. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z David Harsent's libretto, especially here, is masterly in its use of visceral and bony imagery. Otello; The Minotaur – review 2013-01-20T00:07:21Z Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto sets the story in Naples, where two young men, egged on by an older friend, decide to test their lovers’ fidelity. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z But “Life Is a Dream,” with an elegantly poetic libretto by James Maraniss, who translated, pared down and adapted the Calderón text, still languished. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z And of course there’s Ruhl herself, who created a revisionist mythology in her 2003 play “Eurydice,” which she adopted into the opera’s libretto. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The final week of repertory is devoted to Alexei Ratmansky’s “Whipped Cream,” a fanciful ballet about a youngster and his love of sweets that features a score and libretto by Richard Strauss. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The libretto was adapted by Adams, with additional passages from Plutarch and Virgil. San Francisco Opera will debut Adams’ ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z “They don’t have to look at the libretto.” Poetry in motion: Mariinsky Ballet brings Russian fairy tale to the stage 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z It was an exciting voice to experience and, in the romantically conflicted title role, she was able to infuse the empty melodramatics of the libretto with arresting emotion. Review | Opera-singing sisters liven a routine performance of ‘Maria di Rohan’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Over the next two decades Guadagni repeated the role in London, Munich and Padua and recreated the character of Orfeo in other musical settings of the same libretto. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z At the end of Mr. Bösch’s production, the title character doesn’t ascend to heaven with Apollo, as the libretto indicates. Review: In ‘L’Orfeo,’ Free Spirit and Brave Soul Unite 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z “The libretto and multifaceted score challenge our preconceptions of gender and sexual roles and test our ideas of what opera is and is not.” Genre-Blurring, Politically Charged Opera Wins Top Music Prize 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z His chamber opera “Our Town,” based on the Thornton Wilder play and with a libretto by J.D. Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The libretto is translated into contemporary South African English with occasional forays into Xhosa and other African languages. A 'Flute' from Africa renews Mozart's musical magic 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. MacIvor, a well-known Canadian playwright, was brought in to write the libretto; the process proved difficult. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z This approach enhances the fragility — as well as the risk factor — of the live performance and helps elucidate the libretto’s mysteries. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z The libretto describes Igor as returning to a city in ruins. Music Review: A New Vision for ‘Prince Igor’ at the Met 2014-02-07T11:38:03Z And some of the dialogue is painfully puerile—but you can’t blame the new production for that; it’s equally painful when you read the libretto in the Library of America’s just-published two-volume “American Musicals.” An “On the Town” for Our Time 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z But Mr. Guth’s literal spin, which plays organically to the libretto and music rather than as an artificial concept, adds both a new urgency and an unexpected tenderness. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Staged by Claus Guth at Staatsoper in Berlin 2012-07-08T19:24:24Z That father, the libretto slowly reveals, recently lost his wife. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z In Benjamin Britten’s opera — with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 Henry James novella — an absentee guardian hires a governess to care for his orphaned young nephew, Miles, and niece, Flora. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z And Berg’s libretto is quite faithful to that. William Kentridge Brings ‘Wozzeck’ Into the Trenches 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z With a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth, this piece has had a tortured history, struggling to find its form before and after its 1983 premiere. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Wagner’s libretto is filled with stage directions that were unrealistic for his day, including underwater episodes with the Rhinemaidens swirling about. Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z Mr. Benjamin’s music surges with volatile feeling; in Mr. Crimp’s libretto, the relationship between the king and Gaveston, the favorite in question, is both heady and fraught with risk. Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s a stronger, darker and certainly more ambitious work than “Prima Donna,” for which Mr. Wainwright co-wrote a weak French libretto. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z “Anything I might say about the controversy would pour gasoline on the embers,” Ms. Goodman said, adding, “I doubt I’ll ever write anything better than the libretto of ‘The Death of Klinghoffer.’” She Gave Words to Opera’s Nixon 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The music and libretto of “X,” by contrast, keep promising crackling drama without quite delivering; there can be a sense of falling between the stools of trance-like repetition and standard storytelling. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Ruhl’s libretto called for a lighter, more enchanting score than “Crossing.” Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The score never acquires the entrancing richness of Mr. Glass’s music for “Einstein,” which added elements of grandeur and momentousness to that production’s willfully meaningless libretto, justifying its epic length. Theater Review: ‘Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-23T03:00:48Z “Semele” was a hybrid, adapted from an existing opera libretto by William Congreve, though Handel stipulated that it be presented at Covent Garden in the manner of an oratorio. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Some 19th-century libretti are very flat and simple, and the Baroque is a world very much deeper and richer.” Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian Soprano 2012-03-30T16:27:11Z The Met's joint commissioning program with Lincoln Center Theater will conduct a workshop this spring of Scott Wheeler's "The Sorrows of Frederick," with a libretto by the late Romulus Linney based on his 1960s play. Met cuts ticket prices following box office slump 2013-02-26T22:04:08Z In both the elaborated choruses and the more straightforward four-part chorales, or hymns, German diction was excellent and, most important, deeply expressive of the libretto’s often-fraught text. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z He never heard Wagner, though he welcomed compliments comparing his poetry to Wagner’s librettos. How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z His opera was workshopped for years, with everyone fully informed about what the libretto contained from the start. Lee Hall's Beached: what really went on? 2011-07-07T17:17:50Z And like the orchestral players, the singers will have to be good sight-readers: though the libretto remains constant, the music Mr. Diebes sends to their monitors will change. ArtsBeat: Girl You Know It’s True! An Opera Inspired by Milli Vanilli Is Set for Brooklyn Run 2014-01-14T17:11:39Z The “Sweet Land” librettos are placeless and poetic; the music is reminiscent of known styles, but heard as if through a prism; the colorful costumes are works of arresting fantasy. An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The libretto, also by Ms. Weir, brings together three of J.F. Classical Playlist: Handel's 'Messiah,' Beethoven, Schumann and More 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The texts for the “Hubble Cantata” were by Royce Vavrek, who wrote the librettos to some of the most exciting recent operas, among them “Dog Days” and “27.” Review: A Musical Tale of the Cosmos, Birth and Death 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z As in Ms. Woolcock’s film, but not in Ms. Goodman’s libretto, Klinghoffer’s murder takes place in full view of the audience. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Chausson, who also wrote the libretto, labored on it for almost a decade — not because he was stuck, but because he wanted to get it right. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Thompson, who also directed the production, has written one of the most elegant librettos I’ve heard in a long time. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Each has been recorded on his Orange Mountain Music label, whose CD editions also include librettos. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Like many recent productions of the “Ring,” the overall modern gloss of this one is shot through with traditional touches, and little here truly violates the libretto. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Ultimately, the most astonishing thing was how well the films were integrated with Alice Goodman’s libretto, Adams’ music and, to my amazement, the live cast members themselves. L.A. Phil delivers a dazzling reimagining of 'Nixon in China' 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Stravinsky then invited Mr. Craft to contribute to the English-language libretto of the opera “The Rake’s Progress,” and in short order the two found each other indispensable. Robert Craft, conductor and longtime Stravinsky confidant, dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z With a libretto by Ms. Proulx, it was originally intended for New York City Opera, but opened elsewhere when that company went bankrupt. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Setting June Jordan's libretto, Adams has written 24 pop songs for a cast of seven characters, whose lives, lusts and losses are framed by the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. John Adams's earthquake musical gets a welcome shaking down 2010-07-07T16:29:00Z What keeps the work a rarity rather than a classic is the libretto, which is filled to bursting with spirits and serpents while lacking motivations and plausible relationships. Opera & Classical Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The show has a libretto by Chris Mouron, who also appears in the show as the narrator, and music by Terry Truck. ‘The Little Prince’ to Land on Broadway With Dance and Acrobatics 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Laboring to be poetic, it was merely sophomoric, troweling on cliche with such abandon that I found myself wondering if the libretto was deliberately trying to evoke the banality of Marnie’s world. Review | ‘Marnie’ is all too insubstantial at Met Opera premiere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z There are also suggestions in the libretto of dreams and analysis, and the slippery nature of memory. Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z There are some 10,000 words in the libretto of Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” which the Metropolitan Opera is presenting in a new production starting on Feb. 26. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Set to a libretto by Christopher Hampton, it centered on the gentlemanly negotiations between Generals Grant and Lee at a rural Virginia home that effectively brought the Civil War to a close in 1865. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z In the libretto she rides a flying chariot to seek revenge. Music Review: Gluck?s ?Armide? Opera in Met-Juilliard Production 2012-02-12T15:16:28Z |
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