libretto

In John de los Santos’s jam-packed libretto, Macaria, who works as a hospital custodian, meets the mysterious Señora, who is actually Death, on a bus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The opera was composed by Still with a libretto from the Missouri-born poet, playwright, novelist and social activist Langston Hughes, who connected Haiti’s struggle for freedom to his home country’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Gian Carlo Menotti’s gothic libretto felt weirder than usual.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Pushkin’s text eventually became the libretto that Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov employed in his opera of the same name.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

If Ethan were here, he’d have the whole libretto written by the time we stepped out of the car.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Both operas boast Alice Goodman libretti that promise to become lasting works of literature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

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.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2021

He later wrote the libretto to “Emmeline,” from a novel by Judith Rossner, for composer Tobias Picker, and translated libretti by Mozart and Bizet.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2018

He has collaborated on two libretti, an operatic sideline resulting from a misapprehension.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013

The literary qualities of the libretti are not under discussion here.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel

That certainly appealed to Hammerstein, he said, whose librettos tended to have political aspects to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

Italian soprano Carmela Remigio told the Corriere della Sera newspaper that it was thanks to the opera and its librettos that Italian language was still known in the world.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

His first two — “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer” — had librettos by poet Alice Goodman that featured long speeches and meditations.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

Although he adapted familiar books by Emily Bronte, John Steinbeck and Robert Penn Warren for these pieces, working closely with the last two authors, Mr. Floyd always wrote his own librettos.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021

They bring librettos to the opera and read them in the dark, thus missing a great deal of what passes on the stage.

From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Simeon Strunsky