How to use in-sentence of “libretto”:
– He wrote all the libretto himself, as he always did for his operas.
– Piave based his libretto on Victor Hugo’s play.
– He wrote the libretto for Verdi’s operas “La forza del destino”.
– The libretto is attributed to Lincoln Kirstein and is based on the life of Billy the Kid.
– It was first performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, on February 3, 1823, libretto by Gaetano Rossi.
– The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner based on a French story.
– The libretto is by Giovanni Francesco Busenello.
– He knew Rameau’s take on the story from Voltaire’s libretto for an opera on the subject, but Rameau’s storm was a metaphor for the wrath of God.
Example sentences of “libretto”:
– The young lady who wrote the libretto for Janáček had been one of his daughter’s close friends.
– He made changes to the libretto himself.
– Gaetano Donizetti wrote the music to a libretto by Felice Romani.
– Three years later, he adapted a French play called “The Marriage of Figaro” to an opera libretto for Mozart.
– The Italian libretto was written by Silvio Stampiglia.
– He wrote many libretti for ballets at the Opéra, and, in 1832, he wrote the libretto for “La Sylphide”, the seminal romantic ballet.
– He also wrote the libretto for Umberto Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier”.
– This was a brilliant libretto and it helped him to write a great masterpiece in which every little detail of the story is beautifully described by the music.
– He wrote the libretto for “Le Spectre de la rose”, a ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1911.
– It is uncertain who wrote the libretto of the ballet.
– The libretto is based on a newspaper report.
- The young lady who wrote the libretto for Janáček had been one of his daughter’s close friends.
- He made changes to the libretto himself.
– A libretto can also be the words for an oratorio, cantata, mass or a musical.
– He had separated himself from the Ballets Russes after his libretto for “Schéhérazade” had been attributed to Léon Bakst in the ballet’s theatre programmes.
– The libretto was written by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré.
– The libretto was based on parts of Ludovico Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso”.
– The French languageFrench libretto was written by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard.
– The libretto was written by Antonio Somma.
– Britten asked Montagu Slater to write the libretto based on the story of Crabbe’s poem.
– The libretto was written by Samuel and Bella Spewack.
– At that time, da Ponte promised to write a libretto for Mozart.
More in-sentence examples of “libretto”:
- Wagner wrote the libretto himself.
- In 1874 he composed "I Pezzenti" with libretto by Fulvio Fulgonio which was staged at La Scala in September of that year and then in several European theaters.
- Felice Romani writewrote the libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's "Le philtre".
– Wagner wrote the libretto himself.
– In 1874 he composed “I Pezzenti” with libretto by Fulvio Fulgonio which was staged at La Scala in September of that year and then in several European theaters.
– Felice Romani writewrote the libretto, after Eugène Scribe’s libretto for Daniel Auber’s “Le philtre”.
– He had almost finished his libretto for “Il trovatore” when he died in July 1852.
– The libretto was written by Jules Berbier and Michel Carré.
– Canepa was establishing itself more and more, and his third opera, “Riccardo III”, composed to a libretto by Fulvio Fulgonio and staged for the first time in 1879, received unanimous praise from critics and other celebrated composers, like Giuseppe Verdi and Amilcare Ponchielli.
– He was the first composer to use a libretto by Pietro Metastasio for an opera.
– The German libretto was written by the composer.
– The libretto and choreography were composed by Michel Fokine.
– The libretto was based on Carré’s play “Faust et Marguerite”.
– The libretto is by François-Benoît Hoffmann.
– It was composed to a libretto in the French language by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry.
– Andrew Neiderman is also the author of “The Devil’s Advocate” which was made into a movie, and wrote the libretto for a live musical adaptation of “The Devil’s Advocate”.
– The libretto for the opera was written by Myfanwy Piper.
– He ended his career as a composer with the operetta tragicomic “Amsicora”, composed to a libretto by Salvatore Scano and staged at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari in April 1903.
– The idea about a ballet based on a puppet was Stravinsky’s, but the libretto was almost certainly the work of Benois.
– The libretto is by Felice Romani.The opera was first performed at La Scala in Milan, on December 26, 1831.
– The French languageFrench libretto was written by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
– Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest helped him to prepare the libretto for the opera.
– The libretto are based on a comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais called “The Barber of Seville”.
– The libretto is by Arrigo Boito, based on William Shakespeare’s play “Othello”.
– More than 800 operas have a libretto by Metastasio.
– The latter played Beethoven in Hugo’s home, and Hugo joked in a letter to a friend that thanks to Liszt’s piano lessons, he learned how to play a favourite song on the piano – even though only with one finger! Hugo also worked with composer Louise Bertin, writing the libretto for her 1836 opera “La Esmeralda” which was based on the character in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”.
– The language of the libretto is very deliberately old-fashioned.
– The libretto was written by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
– He wrote his first opera libretto in 1724.
– A libretto is the text which are set to music to make an opera.
– The libretto had been written by Baron Gottfried van Swieten who was an Austrian nobleman who liked music.
– The libretto was written by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica.
– He became fascinated by Shakespeare and he wrote “Otello Otello” to a libretto by Arrigo Boito.
– The opera had one act and its libretto was written by Jalmari Finne.
– It was based on an earlier libretto written by Giacomo Francesco Bussani.
– He is best remembered for having written the libretto for the ballet, “Coppélia” and for having helped translate Richard Wagner’s earliest operas into French.
– The libretto was written by Antonio Ghislanzoni.
– He wanted Haydn to write a second oratorio, so he wrote the libretto for “The Seasons”.
– The libretto was written by Modest Tchaikovsky.
– Usually a libretto is written before the music, but sometimes composers wrote some of the music first and then looked for words to go with it.
– The libretto is by Étienne de Jouy.
– The libretto are in Italian and were written by Giambattista Varesco.
– The words were written for him by Piave who based the libretto on an Italian translation.
– The play was very controversial in its day, but the play’s questionable material was removed and Da Ponte’s libretto passed the Viennese censors.
– Wagner wrote the libretto himself, using the story from a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
– The Italian libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym.
– In 1871 he composed his first opera, “Davide Rizio”, libretto by Enrico Costa, countryman and cousin of Canepa.
– The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave with some extra additions by Andrea Maffei.
– His opera “La Cecchina, ossia la buona Figliuola” with a libretto by Goldoni played for two years in Rome and was produced in all the important European capital cities.
– The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte.