Libretti in a sentence

He completed the text of the cycle by writing the libretti for Die Walküre (The Valkyrie ) and Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold) and revising the other libretti to agree with his new concept, completing them in 1852.

Sullivan's music is much more than the accompaniment of Gilbert's libretti, just as Gilbert's libretti are far more than words to Sullivan's music.

As the printing of libretti for sale at performances became more common, these records often survive better than music left in manuscript.

Because of their atonal music which uses tonal conventions harkening back to late romanticism citation and tragic libretti, Berg's masterworks Wozzeck and Lulu have stayed in the repertory and assumed increased popularity after his death.

By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto (or "poem", as Wagner liked to call his libretti ).

During this period of imperial change in Vienna and revolutionary ferment in France, Salieri composed two additional extremely innovative musical dramas to libretti by Giovanni Casti.

Frontier Research in Opera and Multimedia Preservation: a Project Involving the Documentation and Full Text Retrieval of the Libretti of Pietro Metastasio.

Gilbert brought suit, and after The Gondoliers closed in 1891, he withdrew the performance rights to his libretti, vowing to write no more operas for the Savoy.

His libretti were set many times by many different composers.

Italian libretti were the norm, even when a German composer like Handel found himself composing the likes of Rinaldo and Giulio Cesare for London audiences.

Most opera composers collaborate with a librettist but unusually, Richard Wagner wrote both the music and the libretti for his works himself.

Puccini was deeply involved in the process of writing the libretto itself, requiring many iterative revisions of his libretti in terms of both structure and text.

Second of the operas that Mozart set to Da Ponte's libretti, Don Giovanni has provided a puzzle for writers and philosophers ever since its composition.

She often brought home libretti for Aaron to study.

Since the late 19th century some opera composers have written music to prose or free verse libretti.

The first of the famous series of Mozart operas set to libretti by Lorenzo Da Ponte is now Mozart's most popular opera.

Tippett's second opera, set to another of his own "recondite" libretti, Orrey, p.234 was inspired by Homer's Iliad.

Unlike most opera composers, who generally left the task of writing the libretto (the text and lyrics) to others, Wagner wrote his own libretti, which he referred to as "poems".

Wilson also wrote the libretti for several 20th-century operas.