libretto

• Hartel's consent once given, you must think of adapting to this charming music a libretto which is worthy of it,—and, if you are fortunate in doing this, success, and a popular and productive success, is undoubted. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso,"
• Beethoven took up his quarters in the theatre again as soon as the libretto was ready for him and went to work at it with a will. —  Beethoven
• Operas of major composers are rarely neglected without some good reason - a muddled libretto, an uneven score, a lack of theatrical impetus. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• Peter Sellars 'libretto, and is also being seen today in the Met's HD series -- and will be broadcast on CBC's Today On Radio 2 16 / 01 / 09 Posted by Li Robbins on Jan-16-09 at 03: 00 —  CBC | Top Stories News
• The bland libretto is a gangsta's checklist of un-slick metaphors, but somewhere after the midway point the laidback Brooklyn emcee spits "I see 'em on the block when I passes / Lookin 'like they need oxygen mask-es" and that extra syllable feels so exceedingly Ogden Nash deft for its winded interlocution, casting a backward glance on the bazillion wheezy details before it. —  Pitchfork: Latest News

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