librettists

But for all its manic, modern undercurrents, the opera was still set by its librettists in the kind of German village Goethe visited in 1772.

Janacek Saves a Season David Littlejohn 2010

The boy-man in Elf, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, is 30-year-old Buddy (Sebastian Arcelus), whom librettists Tom (Annie, The Producers) Meehan and Bob (The Drowsy Chaperone) Martin have catapulted to the stage from screenwriter David Berenbaum's 2003 movie of the same name.

David Finkle: First Nighter: The Pee-wee Herman Show , Elf and the Ubiquitous Inner Child David Finkle 2010

The librettists, Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, smoothed Shakespeare into operatic shape: There's a conventional love duet for Hamlet and Ophélie in Act I, and Hamlet overhears Polonius (who otherwise has little to do) admitting his complicity in the murder plot.

Melancholy Dane, Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

ANNUAL "PAGE-TO-STAGE" READINGS, more than 25 area theater companies hold readings and open rehearsals of plays and musicals being developed by local, regional and national playwrights, librettists and composers. 2-10 p.m. Saturday-Monday, Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW.

D.C. community calendar, Sept. 2 to 9, 2010 2010

The librettists, Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, smoothed Shakespeare into operatic shape: There's a conventional love duet for Hamlet and Ophélie in Act I, and Hamlet overhears Polonius (who otherwise has little to do) admitting his complicity in the murder plot.

Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

The librettists, Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, smoothed Shakespeare into operatic shape: There's a conventional love duet for Hamlet and Ophélie in Act I, and Hamlet overhears Polonius (who otherwise has little to do) admitting his complicity in the murder plot.

Melancholy Dane, Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

Its second failing is the libretto, by a pair of jobbing librettists who, when they heard the score, apologized to Bizet "for not giving him one of their best efforts," as George Hall writes in the program notes for the English National Opera's superb new production.

'Pearl Fishers' Offers Great Performances, Grand Imagery 2010

The Metropolitan Opera's ongoing commissioning program, announced in 2006, amounts to giving seed money to composers and librettists to develop a work for a workshop performance, after which the work's future -- as opera, or as music theater -- will be determined.

New American operas are going the way of smaller venues, on smaller scales 2010

At the time, Walker was conducting Handel's "Acis and Galatea" for Opera Australia -- for which Pope had been one of the librettists.

Washington Concert Opera's Antony Walker reads 'Scandal of the Season' and more 2010

The librettists, Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, smoothed Shakespeare into operatic shape: There's a conventional love duet for Hamlet and Ophélie in Act I, and Hamlet overhears Polonius (who otherwise has little to do) admitting his complicity in the murder plot.

Melancholy Dane, Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010