librettos

On other occasions, too, he fumed at the desecration of his "librettos;" and when the word "last" was accidentally omitted from his joke -- "Heard my [last] new song?"

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

"librettos" to set to music: he produced his own dramatic poems, thus giving dramatic integrity to opera, and making symphony articulate.

The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

TS: The problem here is language There are some sublime couplets and rhymings in Lorenzo Da Ponte's librettos for Mozart, and there's some brilliant Teutonic wordplay in Wagner's music-dramas.

Opera versus musicals: which do you prefer? 2011

An enthusiastic Germanophile who often dressed in Lederhosen, he made frequent pilgrimages to Bayreuth, and his archive abounds with Wagnerian pianola rolls, librettos and programs.

Glyndebourne's Epic Adventure Guy Chazan 2011

Then at the end of these brutal librettos they'd launch themselves into the darkness, collide softly with my mosquito net and tumble back to the floor to start all over again.

From Guyana to Guiana Wayne Curtis 2011

Carol Pratt Two new operas that strove for laughs but stumbled on their librettos.

When Words Got in the Way Heidi Waleson 2011

The librettos are written with all the subtlety and wit of a naff greetings card.

Opera versus musicals: which do you prefer? 2011

Mr. Stein wrote the librettos for more than a dozen Broadway musicals, including "Zorba," a 1968 production about an irrepressibly charismatic Greek title character.

Joseph Stein, writer of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Zorba," dies at 98 Emma Brown 2010

The facts taken from the last weeks of the life of Don Diego Jones, a 14-year veteran of the chorus at the Washington Opera, married man and a proud new parent, make for the stuff of tragedy, as if lifted from the librettos of the classical operas he loved.

Washington National Opera singer's slaying leaves family with questions 2010

The facts taken from the last weeks of the life of Don Diego Jones, a 14-year veteran of the chorus at the Washington Opera, married man and a proud new parent, make for the stuff of tragedy, as if lifted from the librettos of the classical operas he loved.

Washington National Opera singer's slaying leaves family with questions 2010