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Pages from an 1859 libretto for Ernani, with the original Italian lyrics, English translation and musical notation for one of the arias. Sometimes the libretto is written in close collaboration with the composer; this can involve adaptation, as was the case with Rimsky-Korsakov and his librettist Vladimir Belsky, or an entirely original work ...
The American company called Figaro Systems established by Patrick Markle, Geoff Webb, and Ron Erkman developed the first assistive technology for individualized libretto-reading for audiences. [12] This technology allows the audience to select their preferred language from a list or simply turn it off, watching the performance without surtitles.
Massimo Cacciari (born 1944) . for Luigi Nono: Prometeo; Louis de Cahusac (1706–1759) . for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon (first Rameau opera by that name), Les Boréades, Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Naïs, La naissance d'Osiris, Zaïs, Zoroastre
Julietta is an opera by Bohuslav Martinů, who also wrote the libretto, in French, based on the play Juliette ou la Clé des songes (Juliette, or The Key of Dreams) by the French author Georges Neveux. A libretto in Czech was later prepared for its premiere which took place at the Prague National Theatre on 16 March 1938.
Sapho is a pièce lyrique ("lyric play", an opera in a declamatory style) in five acts. The music was composed by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Cain and Arthur Bernède, based on the novel (1884) of the same name by Alphonse Daudet.
Mélidore et Phrosine is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It takes the form of a drame lyrique (a type of opéra comique) in three acts. The libretto, by Antoine Vincent Arnault, is loosely based on the myth of Hero and Leander. The work was first performed at the Théâtre Favart in Paris on 6 May 1794. It is an important ...
Krapp, ou, La dernière bande (English: The Last Tape, German: Krapp, oder Das letzte Band) is a chamber opera in one act by Marcel Mihalovici with a libretto by Samuel Beckett. The libretto is based on Beckett's 1958 play Krapp's Last Tape , and large portions of the play's script were lifted for use in the libretto.
Fatinitza was the first full-length, three-act operetta by Franz von Suppé. [1] The libretto by F. Zell (a pseudonym for Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée [2] was based on the libretto to La circassienne by Eugène Scribe (which had been set to music by Daniel Auber in 1861), [1] but with the lead role of Wladimir, a young Russian lieutenant who has to disguise himself as a woman, changed to ...