It was a great challenge to be given a libretto.
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Michael Libretto to testimony addressing an obstruction charge facing Felix.
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The libretto, however, remains as difficult to stage as ever.
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The libretto is by the writer and physician Marie Pappenheim.
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The playwrights Will Eno and Kate Tarker contributed the libretto.
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The libretto is by Ms. Nottage, with Bartlett Sher directing.
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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.
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The libretto combines Mandarin, modified Mandarin and invented words and sounds.
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Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto with Mr. Adès, also directs.
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And the historical backdrop is given intriguing tweaks in this libretto.
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I wrote the libretto for "A Marvelous Order" several years ago.
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The hulking singer's story has more plot twists than an Italian libretto.
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Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto sets this classic opera in 18th-century Naples.
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Virgil Thomson's opera, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein, is rarely performed.
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Arthur Laurents wrote the book, but Robbins's choreography is the true libretto.
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The Lebanese-born author Amin Maalouf wrote the poetic and profound libretto.
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"So much noise," the libretto reads in the Met's seat-back titles.
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What's libretto you jabronis may be asking ... it's the text of an opera.
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The libretto of "Huguenots," by Eugène Scribe, is a crafty exercise in intensification.
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I love Stockhausen's libretto, which is sometimes sung, sometimes spoken and sometimes prerecorded.
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Dvořák took on the libretto and the full opera premiered in Prague in 1901.
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SOUTHBURY "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck, libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. Aug.
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Mr. Sheng wrote the libretto with David Henry Hwang, the Tony Award-winning playwright.
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The libretto is assembled from love poems by Michelangelo written to a young nobleman.
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Ellen Pearlman, director and curator at the Volumetric Society, acts as the show's libretto.
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In keeping with the company's mission, the German libretto is performed in English translation.
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One problem with the story is that "zeffiretti" does not appear in the libretto.
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On the one hand, you have the libretto, which is completely concrete and intellectual.
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"This theme and my libretto are yours by right of conquest," the librettist wrote.
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With its boldly eclectic score and powerful libretto, "Dog Days" tells an apocalyptic story unstintingly.
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Its libretto, by Randolph Stow, is based partly on rantings attributed to King George III.
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There are no traces of the meadows, or the woodland murmurs the libretto refers to.
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In the libretto, her father, the Commendatore, challenges him to a duel and is killed.
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Cori Ellison, who assisted Lash with the libretto, is the dramaturge, while Rachel Dickstein directs.
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He sent an outline to Ms. Starobin, who began writing the libretto on her own.
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As Hanif revises the libretto, he and Fairouz sift through ideas in long telephone calls.
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Lynn -- who won a Pulitzer for her plays "Sweat" and "Ruined" -- is producing the show's libretto.
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"The overarching goal was to take the libretto as seriously as the music," Mr. Jacobs said.
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Ariosto's Orlando is a leader in Charlemagne's army, though the opera's libretto leaves the details vague.
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Here, the staging achieved an abstract power perfectly in line with the hallucinations of the libretto.
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Before Kepler was hatched, she wrote historical fiction; he wrote novels, plays and one opera libretto.
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Mr. Davis has been working on the opera, with a libretto by Richard Wesley, for years.
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In Bausch's piece the opera's libretto, by Bela Balazs, forms a loose counterpoint to the actions.
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Another world premiere was Denis & Katya, with music by Philip Venables and libretto by Ted Huffman.
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Brockes's libretto identifies the soldiers who scourge Jesus as Jews—a departure from the New Testament.
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"Tarare," which has a libretto by Pierre Beaumarchais, dares to show the overthrow of a despot.
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Ms. Chavkin made Mr. Groban read the libretto, aloud, without singing, while staring into her eyes.
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Cruz's libretto does, however, improve on the discursive chatter of the book, substituting blunter, starker language.
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Tom Cairns, the director of the production, also wrote the English libretto in collaboration with Mr. Adès.
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Michael Libretto, did not allow testimony about whether Sergeant Felix's actions were responsible for the recruit's suicide.
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With music by David T. Little and a libretto by Royce Vavrek, it is a stunning tragedy.
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But the strengths of Bouilly's libretto and its resonance in times of political oppression are immediately apparent.
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This one-act opera about labor politics, with a libretto by Langston Hughes, was performed in 1940.
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Perhaps the custom or rule that the costumes should take into account the libretto and the staging?
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The addition of projected subtitles made sure none of the linguistic nuances of the libretto were missed.
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Aleksei Kruchenykh was the author of the libretto, and Kazimir Malevich designed the costumes and the abstract scenery.
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Sellars has lately adopted a documentary style of libretto writing, compiling texts from memoirs, letters, and historical accounts.
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Mr. MacIvor, a well-known Canadian playwright, was brought in to write the libretto; the process proved difficult.
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"Marnie," with a libretto by the dramatist Nicholas Wright, too often feels like a play with noirish underscoring.
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All of the above is there in the libretto, even when you do it with horns and spears.
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Mark Campbell's libretto, based on the 2005 film "Joyeux Noël," is multilingual to accommodate the different nationalities onstage.
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Retaining Bizet's music, Hammerstein translated the French libretto into a Northern white man's idea of Southern black patois.
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I had one conversation with Mr. Eotvos, and he asked if I'd be interested in organizing a libretto.
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The libretto, by Caterino Mazzolà, is an adventurous variation on the standard conceit of a topsy-turvy world.
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He hoped to collaborate with Jean Genet, who made preliminary sketches for a libretto in the late sixties.
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The score is by Robert Maggio, with a libretto by Dan Henriksson, of the Finnish theater company Klockriketeatern.
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I bought the libretto to a 1983 musical yesterday and no one tried to weigh in on that purchase.
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Instead, marrying this music and libretto with these photographs sentimentalizes their depicted sexuality, so much as to neuter it.
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Michael D. Libretto of the Marines, has similarly found no fault by the military in Mr. Hadi's health care.
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Reinhardt's libretto tells of a ninety-five-year-old woman who is reliving her life as she faces death.
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" These lines, capturing various archetypal facets of Romantic love and anguish, come from the libretto of "Layla and Majnun.
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Plans are already underway to translate the libretto into the classical Chinese in which the novel was originally written.
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The new libretto by Vid Guerrerio in English (and Spanglish) condenses Beaumarchais's drama to two and a half hours.
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" An earlier version of this article misstated the inspiration for Daniel MacIvor's libretto for Rufus Wainwright's new opera, "Hadrian.
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Earlier interpretations tended to stick close to the original libretto, which exhaustively mines the comic potential of cultural clashes.
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He wrote a two-volume history of the Stanislavsky method of acting — and the libretto to a Yiddish opera.
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Donizetti, using an Italian translation of a libretto by Rousseau, presents Pygmalion in a near-suicidal agony of desire.
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If the libretto contorts itself again and again, Handel seizes each opportunity to explore complex emotions through wondrous music.
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She staged a workshop production of the opera "Scarlet Letter" with a libretto by the feminist writer Carol Gilligan.
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That's the simple frame for Blitzstein's libretto, which alternates between scenes in the courtroom and the detainees' back stories.
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There have been thousands where it says in the libretto that she dies, and a production makes him die.
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But the spirit tale related in Ellen McLaughlin's libretto didn't feel distinctive enough to fill the substantial running time.
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Whole stretches of Mr. Kushner's arresting dialogue, afire with political diatribes, are gone from the opera's compact English libretto.
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Bill calls it a 'choreopoem' because Marc's libretto has very specific instructions for how dance functions in the piece.
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The dramatic impact was enhanced because the opera was performed in an English translation of Janacek's original Czech libretto.
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He updated the original libretto, written by Mr. Hammerstein and Joseph Fields, and tweaked the characters and the plot.
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Images from the libretto, like horses for chase music, appear wittily, but nothing approaching tragedy or conflict ever intrudes.
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The libretto features a boy who just received his confirmation venturing into a pastry shop and overdosing on sugar.
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Assigned the stilted libretto by his composition teacher, he wrote the 60-minute score in three weeks, including the orchestration.
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That first notion blossomed into a wonderful libretto by Nicholas Wright, which then turned into a giant stack of manuscript.
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Saariaho's other works are celebrated, as well, especially her oratorio, La Passion de Simone, with a libretto by Amin Maalouf.
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For his sexually seething, modern-dress production of "Poppea," the director Tim Albery made his own translation of the libretto.
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Today, there are several working versions, Mr. Pollack said, and they have restored some of Latouche's contributions to the libretto.
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The Morgan Library & Museum has a libretto for Verdi's "Aida" that the composer annotated while supervising its early Italian performances.
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He claimed that earlier, he had offered Puccini his libretto, but that Puccini had replied that he was not interested.
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Puccini's "La Bohème," with a libretto written for him by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, premiered in Turin in 1896.
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Golan's libretto has no room for mystery or ambiguity, which perhaps suits a story about the arbitrariness of cruel fate.
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The hourlong work has no plot, no characters and no libretto, but features six singers, a violin and a viola.
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Poots thought the libretto for "Hamilton" was magnificent, but I could tell that he was less enthusiastic about the music.
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Never did Mr. Stone's direction conflict with the libretto; his staging was smoothly effective, as balanced as Mr. Petrenko's conducting.
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"Heart Chamber," for which Czernowin wrote her own libretto, tells of a contemporary love affair infiltrated by anxieties and hesitations.
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There are some compelling elements to "Dear Erich," which has a libretto by Mr. Rosenthal and his wife, Lesley Rosenthal.
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The only surviving libretto from Purcell's lifetime does say clearly that the opera was performed at Josias Priest's boarding school.
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A recipient of fellowships from Poets House, Lambda Literary, and Sundress Academy for the Arts, they're currently working on a libretto.
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Jaroslav Kvapil wrote the libretto in 1899, deriving the plot from Andersen-esque stories by Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová.
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His libretto lays out the story of a young musician haunted by the image of an idealized woman he sees everywhere.
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And now the initiative continues with a world premiere: "Stonewall," with music by Iain Bell and a libretto by Mark Campbell.
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In Part Two, the libretto took a little more of a turn, and we sort of get Montejo's thoughts on things.
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Despite — or perhaps because of — its nonsensical libretto, nonexistent story, eccentric staging and unabashedly accessible music, "Four Saints" caused a sensation.
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Kentridge has transplanted "Wozzeck" from the early-nineteenth-century setting of Berg's libretto to the period of the First World War.
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And there's a premiere, "An American Soldier," with music by Huang Ruo and a libretto by David Henry Hwang. opera-stl.
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A snazzy contemporary setting replaces the opera's original 18th-century one, but the production is otherwise largely faithful to the libretto.
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"The Source," based on a libretto by Mark Doten, is a mesmerizing and disquieting collage of vocal, instrumental, and recorded sounds.
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Most astonishingly, the choreography brilliantly vindicates a score and libretto by Richard Strauss that have long been deemed ill-advised failures.
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Da Ponte originally wrote his "Così Fan Tutte" libretto for Salieri, who began working on it and then set it aside.
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"L'Amour de Loin", which features a French libretto by Amin Maalouf, seeks to explore the inner worlds of these two distant lovers.
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The libretto, by Hans Müller, is based on a 1917 play by the Austrian dramatist Hans Kaltneker, who specialized in Expressionist mysticism.
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Throughout the day, the sound of pencils frantically scratching at notebooks will be the soft-dinned orchestra to Miller's sing-song libretto.
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It's a stronger, darker and certainly more ambitious work than "Prima Donna," for which Mr. Wainwright co-wrote a weak French libretto.
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Mr. Muhly's "Marnie," with an effective libretto by Nicholas Wright, had its much-anticipated American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday.
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The libretto ends with Samson, summoning his lost strength through prayer, pushing apart the columns of the temple and destroying everyone within.
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The plot concerns a messianic Stranger who arrives and brings what the libretto euphemistically terms "love" to a tyrannical Ruler's oppressive land.
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I don't think even Mozart realized how deeply he had managed to probe below the comic surface of Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto.
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These horrors aren't imagined; Mr. Sellars assembled the libretto from historical texts, including journals, poems and folk song lyrics of the time.
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I first directed it in Aix-en-Provence in 1994, but when I reread the libretto I felt completely differently about it.
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The libretto, by Louis Fuzelier, has two Europeans, the Frenchman Damon and the Spaniard Don Alvar, pursuing the beautiful Native American Zima.
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He didn't think it would take much to turn it into a libretto: The script is plain-spoken, concise and naturally musical.
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PARIS — You'll find them up in the balcony, or in standing room, silently mouthing the libretto or humming along with the score.
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Mr. Fairouz had long been an admirer of Mr. Ignatius's (although they had never met) and asked him to write the libretto.
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He pruned the libretto drastically to enhance the dramatic pacing, and wrote complex music that plumbs the emotional turmoil of the characters.
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With music by Richard Auldon Clark and a libretto by the writer himself, the opera premieres on September 16 during Indiana's bicentennial celebrations.
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With a pungent libretto by Michael Korie, this thought-provoking opera meshes fact and fiction in its depiction of the painter Edward Hopper.
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Like all of Adams's stage works to date, "Girls of the Golden West" was directed by Peter Sellars, who also assembled the libretto.
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With a poetic French libretto by the Lebanese-born novelist Amin Maalouf, the story centers on Jaufré Rudel, a troubadour prince of Aquitaine.
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By considering the text as an opera libretto, we were able to scrutinize the emotions that the anonymous sender was seeking to express.
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It offers a chance to hear Krenek's affection for American styles as pure music, rather than tied to the opera's sometimes problematic libretto.
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With a libretto by Ms. Proulx, it was originally intended for New York City Opera, but opened elsewhere when that company went bankrupt.
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But when Henze received the draft libretto for a Euripidean opera from the poets W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, he set it aside.
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"What is being performed here is very much inspired by the original score, the original theatrical intentions of the libretto," Mr. Nagano said.
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Although Mr. Berkoff is credited with the opera's libretto, the text was adapted by Mr. Turnage and the first production's director, Jonathan Moore.
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The libretto by Ms. Carson and Ms. Rankine explores the lives of New Yorkers using two focal points: the time of 7 p.m.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article on Page 10 about Rufus Wainwright's new opera, "Hadrian," misstates the inspiration for Daniel MacIvor's libretto for the opera.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article on Page 10 about Rufus Wainwright's opera "Hadrian" misstates the inspiration for Daniel MacIvor's libretto for the new work.
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The libretto is very economical, and all of Poul's music in the opera has both a mysterious quality and a sense of resolution.
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Critic's Notebook Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's dances for the Broadway revival swarm and sweep, but Robbins's choreography was something more central: the libretto.
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The director Anthony Minghella, who was tapped to write the opera's libretto and direct it, died in 2008 at the age of 54.
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"Intimate Apparel: the Opera," composed by Ricky Ian Gordon with libretto by Lynn Nottage, is coming to Lincoln Center in late February 2020.
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Among such intense offerings, one highlight is "prism," composed by Ellen Reid, with a libretto by Roxie Perkins and direction by James Darrah.
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With a libretto by Charles M. Nolte, the opera presents Poe on a nightmarish journey of self-discovery in his feverish final days.
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The show was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera back in summer 2015, with music by Mason Bates and a libretto by Mark Campbell.
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" 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.
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They do not simply accompany the libretto but also reveal the subconscious feelings of the characters or what will happen later in the story.
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Condensed to two-and-a-half hours, the opera is performed in Vid Guerrerio's new English (and Spanglish) version of the original Italian libretto.
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The story, though, is the least interesting element of "The Echo Drift," which has a libretto by Elle Kunnos de Voss and Kathryn Walat.
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With a libretto by Saul Williams and directed by Patricia McGregor, his new piece thinks broadly about the political and personal nature of space.
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But listening to the music alone and brainstorming conceptual approaches brought him to the 1851 Henri Murger book on which the libretto is based.
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But all that will change when On Site Opera presents this world premiere, with music by John Musto and a libretto by Eric Einhorn.
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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.
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Mark Campbell's libretto is based on the 1932 play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, adapted into a classic 1933 George Cukor film.
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She spent 18 months working on the libretto, then quit because of differences with San Francisco Opera, which commissioned the work, over its direction.
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So it added new sections in Michif, the Métis language, to a 50-year-old libretto that was already in English, French and Cree.
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Frank Bidart's poem is the libretto for this Ricky Ian Gordon opera, which examines the lives of Ellen West and her psychiatrist, Ludwig Binswanger.
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The poet's first full-length libretto was for Salieri's "Il Ricco d'un Giorno" ("Rich for a Day"), which failed with the public, in 21805.
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The libretto by Savyon Liebrecht, based on her play, leaps fluidly from the 1920s to the 1970s and from Germany to Israel and America.
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He sees the album as "essentially a work of music that employs language in the same way that an opera has a libretto," he said.
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Following the publication of his second novel, he switched to theater after being asked to write an opera libretto, and immediately took to the form.
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And what if it had an ethically problematic libretto, so that the people who found it had to struggle with what to do with it?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Deciding to focus on the central love triangle, Mr. Sheng was able to persuade Mr. Hwang, who had rebuffed initial requests, to write the libretto.
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At the time, I wrote that although contemporary operas are always a welcome programming choice, Adès and Carnes's libretto hewed too closely to the film.
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The following season Mr. Nézet-Séguin will conduct a new opera by Matthew Aucoin, "Eurydice," with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from her play.
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He also wrote for The Huffington Post, and composed the libretto for Deborah Drattell's 2003 production of "Nicholas and Alexandra" by the Los Angeles Opera.
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With a libretto by Royce Vavrek, and in a production by James Darrah, it is performed here by the International Contemporary Ensemble under Christopher Rountree.
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The libretto, by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin, often lapses into stereotype in its depiction of a Gullah community on the Carolina coast.
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Berg fashioned the libretto directly from Georg Büchner's 1837 play, "Woyzeck," an unblinking portrayal of an ordinary soldier's degradation by military discipline and medical experiment.
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There are racial pitfalls baked into the libretto, as well as vaguely Asian melodies in the score, and Mr. Kosky manages them with mixed success.
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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.
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In this audacious opera — for which Tom Cairns, the director of the production, wrote the libretto in collaboration with Mr. Adès — the music digs deep.
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The first, on Wednesday evening, will feature six pieces at NYU Tisch's GMTWP Black Box Theatre, including one (with music by Jacinth Greywoode and libretto by Deepali Gupta) inspired by the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, and another (with music by Bryan Blaskie and libretto by Christine Claudel Filimonova) imagining the first job interview of late-medieval author Christine de Pizan, following her husband's death.
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With music by Joseph Rumshinsky, lyrics by Louis Gilrod and a libretto by Frieda Freiman — immigrants all — it was a hit when it opened in 1923.
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The opera is inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and features a libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain (a student of Mr. García Márquez's).
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At Bard, the director Christian Räth and the designer Esther Bialas dealt with the overwrought libretto by transplanting the action to a vaguely futuristic, dystopian setting.
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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.
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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.
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And yet the resulting work had an amateurish feel, the music flat-textured, the libretto trite in its efforts to mimic the language of archaic myth.
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"You must know singing, you must know the way the voice works, what the libretto means, and how the drama is paced," he said in 1986.
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The libretto and score maintained different levels of staged action, yet could conceivably be performed (abortive first attempts notwithstanding) by traditional opera companies in traditional theaters.
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Critic's Pick This new work, with music by Terence Blanchard and a libretto by Kasi Lemmons, is a bold and affecting adaptation of Charles Blow's memoir.
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It's meticulously crafted, with Racine's precise alexandrine verse artfully relaxed in the libretto and resourcefully sung and acted by Barbara Hannigan, Bo Skovhus and Ivan Ludlow.
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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.
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Is there an approach to this work that isn't just moving the attic stove, a fixture of the libretto, from stage right to left to center?
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Puccini said he was composing the music to "La Bohème"; a stunned Leoncavallo responded that he, too, was composing a Bohème opera with his own libretto.
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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.
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Or even, in a few cases, fresh invention based on nothing but a libretto, for necessary continuity in an opera that's come down to us incomplete.
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"He draws a portrait from his breast," the libretto says, and a solitary flute pierces the gloom like sunlight through a crack in the prison walls.
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Yet "Vanessa," with a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, is also a Gothic family drama, a chilling story dominated by a delusional and fiercely controlling heroine.
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But all that will change on Saturday, when On Site Opera presents this world premiere, with music by John Musto and a libretto by Eric Einhorn.
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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.
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Working with a compact English libretto by Mari Mezei, Mr. Eotvos trimmed Mr. Kushner's theater work down to an opera of about 2 hours 20 minutes.
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"Agrippina," to a libretto by Vincenzo Grimani, had its premiere in Venice in 1709; "Orlando," to an anonymous adaptation of Ludovico Ariosto, in London in 1733.
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Her director, Polly Graham, and libretto collaborator, Catherine Filloux, are women — as is Rei Kawakubo, the couture titan of Commes des Garçons, who designed the costumes.
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It works nearly as well audio-only, thanks to a strong cast, Deborah Artman's crafty libretto and Mr. Gordon's pummeling yet melodious brand of post-Minimalism.
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As he approached 70, Mr. Previn turned to opera, writing "A Streetcar Named Desire" to a libretto by Philip Littell based on the Tennessee Williams play.
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Writing a libretto, formerly a text dashed off in a few weeks, became a full collaboration between a composer and a librettist that could take years.
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A man at the Q&A singled this scene out for particular praise (in more of a comment than a question), comparing it to a Mozart libretto.
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Mozart's libretto is based on a famous text by the eighteenth-century poet Pietro Metastasio, which, as of 1791, had been set to music nearly forty times.
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He has written an opera libretto, published a bawdy epistolary novel lampooning the foundation that funds the country's scientific research, and advised some of Europe's leading politicians.
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"Fallujah," a 90-minute one-act by Tobin Stokes, a Canadian composer, with a libretto by Heather Raffo that explores the Iraq war, will open on Nov.
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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.
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage wrote the musical's libretto, which is said to take place in 1992, just as Jackson is releasing his Dangerous album.
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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.
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Composed by Missy Mazzoli, with a libretto by Royce Vavrek, the brooding work had its New York premiere on Wednesday at the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
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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.
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On March 12, 1903, the Metropolitan Opera presented composer Ethel Smyth's one act opera Die Wald (libretto by Henry Brewster) on a double bill with Il Trovatore.
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" It's an easy mistake: Mr. Adams's opera, with a libretto by Peter Sellars, playfully nods to "La Fanciulla del West," or "The Girl of the Golden West.
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He adapted a Czech libretto for "Julietta" from a French play (subtitled "The Key of Dreams") by Georges Neveux, who pronounced the opera superior to his play.
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But there are stilted phrases in the resulting libretto, starting with the opening aria for the Assistant (the heroic wife), who at the beginning addresses the audience.
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And Mr. Kurtag may not be done yet; he has mulled filling in some of the gaps he has left in creating the "Fin de Partie" libretto.
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Finally, the opera's libretto offers a fresh, contemporary perspective on each of the five tapestries, calling attention to details and themes in direct and oftentimes comedic ways.
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Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio, "Juditha triumphans" — which the Venice Baroque Orchestra performs on Tuesday — contains glorious music and a blood-soaked libretto lifted from the Old Testament.
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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.
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The aim appears less to distort the libretto than to add touches of old-Hollywood glamour with sets and costumes by Malgorzata Szczesniak and film-noir foreboding.
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Mr. McClatchy fell into opera by accident in the 1980s, when he was asked to write the libretto for "A Question of Taste," by the composer William Schuman.
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Byrne is as at home recording a French libretto by Bizet with Rufus Wainwright as he is dropping a vocal on a De La Soul hip hop track.
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Such a milieu could easily have produced a melodrama of the gay-martyr type, but "Fellow Travelers," which has a libretto by Greg Pierce, is after something different.
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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.
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With a libretto by the poet Bao-Long Chu, "Bound" opens with the humiliated Diane (the intensely expressive soprano Fang-Tao Jiang) enduring her sleepless night in jail.
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" Ms. Glause, who had volunteered on boats in the Mediterranean, also wrote the libretto for "Noah," after interviewing many of the same young refugees who are in "Moses.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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The libretto follows the life of Oedipus from his birth and, in a twist of the original myth, a grove where he vanishes in a flash of flight.
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But in the libretto that gap covers three years of suffering for the title character, a betrayed young geisha waiting in vain for the return of her American husband.
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The first time she tries to stab herself, Cio-Cio-San is interrupted by her little boy, whom she embraces almost "to suffocation," the libretto indicates in stage directions.
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Now it feels commonplace; every artist I've met from the UK in the past decade has a libretto or a text or a spoken word performance ready to go.
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Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs; the large ensemble cast includes Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Alice Coote, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, Rod Gilfry and John Tomlinson.
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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.
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In Paris, Mr. van Hove hasn't fundamentally rethought how we hear Mozart or the "Giovanni" libretto, the way he has with the plays of Arthur Miller and Tony Kushner.
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"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.
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How is it that the musical's libretto, by Oscar Hammerstein II, is still as shocking today as it was in 1943, when it altered the course of musical theater?
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" 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.
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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.
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His setting of "The Snow Queen" originally opened with a Danish libretto in Copenhagen in October: the Danish Royal Opera, which commissioned the work, had stipulated a Danish text.
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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.
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In "Great Scott," which has a libretto by Terrence McNally, a celebrated mezzo-soprano is visited by the ghost of a bel-canto composer, whose work she is reviving.
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All is rectified in Act III, set in what the libretto calls a private room in an inn, where a plot to embarrass the philandering baron is carried out.
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Mr. London said in a telephone interview that when he discovered the poem he decided "it had to be an opera," and asked Elise Thoron to write the libretto.
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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.
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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.
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The slow falling and resurfacing of each person complements the music of the video, "Miserere," a 17th-century libretto on the 51st psalm by the Italian composer Gregorio Allegri.
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The oratorio, with a libretto by Gene Scheer, explores a tragic coincidence: On the same August day, the bodies of three young civil rights workers were discovered near Philadelphia, Miss.
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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.
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" He developed an elaborate libretto, which incorporates surreal and at times frightening settings and experiences that take it far from the Christmas cheer, snowflakes and sweets in the traditional "Nutcracker.
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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.
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But its perennial relevance is also baked into the libretto, which Constance DeJong adapted from the Bhagavad Gita, a classic of Hindu scripture and a foundational guide for Gandhi's activism.
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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.
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He wrote the libretto for Douglas Moore's opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe" and lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's operetta "Candide" — until he was fired for being difficult to work with.
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The second of his two operas was "Brief Encounter" (21991), with a libretto by John Caird based on Noël Coward's screenplay for the 21985 David Lean film by that name.
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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.
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The opera for which he'd written a libretto — The Barrier — was a commercial and critical failure; his recently published book Simple Speaks His Mind was critically praised, but not a bestseller.
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" After the final song, Mr. Jaroussky said that although Verlaine (an alcoholic) had a melancholy temperament, he wrote a few lighthearted texts, including the libretto for Chabrier's operetta "Fisch Ton Kan.
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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.
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The festival will open with the world premiere of "Mata Hari" by Matt Marks, a founding member of the ensemble Alarm Will Sound, with a libretto by the director Paul Peers.
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We had to find another story line to keep the genius of Rossini and the music and the libretto, and keep it as a real comedy, because it's important to laugh.
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Drawing largely upon Jean Racine's 17th-century adaptation of the Greek myth, the poetic libretto by Christian Lehnert tells of Phaedra's attempt to seduce her stepson, Hippolyt, and her subsequent suicide.
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"A Quiet Place," its music and libretto (by Stephen Wadsworth) more overtly bleak and jagged, brought the action forward several decades as the "Tahiti" family explodes with grief and buried anger.
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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.
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With music by Saskia Lane and Emily Eagen, and a libretto by Zoë Palmer, the opera is back for another series of free performances after its successful debut in the spring.
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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.
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Abe Burrows, the great musical "book writer"—what others call a libretto Broadway people call a book, and what others call a book they usually call revenge—contributes several good things.
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Although "The Snow Queen" was written with Ms. Hannigan in mind — and although Mr. Abrahamsen had wanted the libretto to be in English — that company insisted on it being in Danish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This valuable period-instrument orchestra, under the direction of Thomas Crawford, makes a case for a second listen to his opera "L'isola disabitata" (The Desert Island), set to a libretto by Metastasio.
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" And it dabbles in Godardian metatheatricality: The libretto for "Paradies" ("Paradise"), for flute and electronic music, the 21st hour of "Klang," begins "'Paradise,' for flute and electronic music, 21st hour of 'Klang.
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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.
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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.
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This material doesn't always exist gracefully alongside the circus movements, which in turn don't always feel appropriate to the libretto or the score, expertly played but slightly starved in the reduced orchestration.
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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.
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The libretto has moments of Hanif's anarchic humor: one of the main characters is a cabinet minister named Maulana Whiskey (essentially, Whiskey Priest), and Benazir is called by her childhood nickname, Pinkie.
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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.
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Amin Maalouf's thoughtful libretto explores the various ways in which the Western tradition of idealized romantic love (think Petrarch) wreaks havoc on the lives of the men and women beholden to it.
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Lang also mentioned in his program notes that he sought to further explore these themes by incorporating ideas from the political theorists Jeremy Bentham, Machiavelli, and Hannah Arendt into the libretto and dramaturgy.
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Mr. Stucky showed his lighter side, and a gift for pastiche, when he wrote the music for "The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)," with a witty libretto by the pianist Jeremy Denk.
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Each chapter manages to encompass a period of Hamilton's life, a period of Hamilton's life, and a brief biography of a cast member just as the libretto shines a light on that person.
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The libretto is by the young Los Angeles-based director Yuval Sharon, who three years ago masterminded the astounding multi-composer opera "Hopscotch," in which audience members were ferried around L.A. in limousines.
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The characters in "Florencia," with a Spanish libretto by Marcelo Fuentes-Berain, are inspired by the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, though the opera is not based on any specific work of his.
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" Michael Pollack, a marketing executive, handed everyone "press kits" he said he made, which included a copy of his old libretto, signed by the cast, and a description of this "Miracle of Miracles.
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Before the advent of sophisticated staved notation, neumes were an early attempt to communicate musical properties like pitch, rhythm, tempo, and inflection, and were normally recorded as distinctive marks above the written libretto.
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Peter Sellars — who compiled the libretto from a collage of primary sources and poetic texts, and who directed the San Francisco premiere — has returned to "Doctor Atomic" in a spare state of mind.
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O18 has also brought the birth of a modest and eloquent new opera, "Sky on Swings," composed by Lembit Beecher to Hannah Moscovitch's poetic yet lucid libretto and performed at the Perelman Theater.
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There was little sense of this blandly brooding, affectlessly luminous score shifting as the libretto did, leaving the words — only a handful of which were audible, with murky amplification partly to blame — adrift.
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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.
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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.
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The Sydney Morning Herald's critic applauded the score, with its "bustling tango energy and transcendence," but others criticized what they saw as a limp libretto that failed to do its subject matter justice.
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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.
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There is a downside to downsizing the score with trims and omissions, though removing whole chunks of the spoken dialogue is actually beneficial; there's way too much of it in the original libretto.
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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.
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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.
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The dystopian and absurdist aspects of this libretto — adapted by Rainer Mennicken from a play by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke — inspired one of Mr. Glass's most vivid and peculiar late-period scores.
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Unfortunately, the libretto is so steeped in knowing wit that it has trouble taking flight as drama, and, with a running time of three hours, the opera loses sparkle well before the end.
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