And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.

The libretto to Armida was by Marco Coltellini the house poet for the imperial theaters.

Da Ponte would write his first opera libretto for Salieri, Il ricco d ' un giorno ( A Rich Man for a Day ) in 1784, it was not a success.

However the failure of this work was more than made up for with his next Parisian opera Tarare with a libretto by Beaumarchais.

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

In the wake of the play's US success, the composer Stravinsky invited Thomas to write a libretto for an opera.

The libretto for Tancredi was an arrangement by Gaetano Rossi of Voltaire's tragedy Tancrède.

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

Conditions of stage production in 1817 are illustrated by Rossini's acceptance of the subject of Cinderella for a libretto only on the condition that the supernatural element should be omitted.

While studying at the Conservatory, Puccini obtained a libretto from Ferdinando Fontana and entered a competition for a one-act opera in 1882.

The libretto for Turdanot was based on a play by Carlo Gozzi, also called Turandot.

Gilbert already had available the libretto he had written for Rosa, and Carte suggested that Sullivan write the score.

Sullivan had been satisfied with the libretto, but two months after Ida opened, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

It was written to a libretto furnished by Nahum Tate, and performed in 1689 in cooperation with Josias Priest, a dancing master and the choreographer for the Dorset Garden Theatre.

In 1691, he wrote the music for what is sometimes considered his dramatic masterpiece, King Arthur, with the libretto by Dryden and first published by the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1843.

He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess.

Cocteau wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, which had its original performance in the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris on May 30, 1927.

* Reconstructie ( 1969 ) ( with Reinbert de Leeuw, Misha Mengelberg, Peter Schat, Jan van Vlijmen, libretto by Hugo Claus, Harry Mulisch ) Morality opera for soloists, 3 mixed choruses ( 4 voices each ), orchestra ( 11 winds, 7 brass, 2 guitars, 11 keyboards, 10 strings ), live electronics

* Rosa-A Horse Drama: The Death of a Composer ( 1993 – 94 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 sopranos, tenor, 2 baritones, female speaker, 8 mixed voices, orchestra.

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

An early leader of this movement was Ferruccio Busoni, who in 1913 wrote the libretto for his neoclassical number opera Arlecchino ( first performed in 1917 ).

She also composed the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner ( 2005 ), based on the life and trial of an enslaved woman who escaped with her family across the river.

The libretto was written for the adaptation by the children's novelist John Emlyn Edwards.

He also wrote the libretto for Prinsessan av Cypern, set by Fredrik Pacius and Lars-Erik Larsson.

The libretto was performed in an original translation by Michael Feingold ; the production was directed by Alvin Epstein.

A new production, with a revised libretto by David Rambo, was produced by the Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah and ran from September 28, 2007, through October 13, 2007.

The production was recorded in its entirety, preserving nearly the entire libretto as well as the score.

The production wove Spanish lyrics and dialogue into the English libretto.

They hoped to forestall further " piracy " by establishing the authorised production and tours in America before others could copy it and by delaying publication of the score and libretto.

Gilbert and Sullivan hoped to forestall further " copyright piracy " by mounting the first production of their next opera in America, before others could copy it, and by delaying publication of the score and libretto.

" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

It will be composed by Osvaldo Golijov with a libretto by Alberto Manguel in a production by Robert Lepage.

Although Oscar Hammerstein II translated the libretto for Georges Bizet's opera Carmen from French into English for his Broadway production, " The music was pretty much left intact ," explains Arts and Entertainment Editor Elisabeth Vincentelli, " but Hammerstein transferred the action to WWII America.

The libretto was duly translated into German for the production and the opera's first performance was given on 2 December 1877 at the Grossherzogliches Theatre ( Grand Ducal Theater ).

* The Lilac Domino ( libretto by Emmerich von Gatti and Béla Jenbach ; music by Charles Cuvillier ) Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre on October 28 and ran for 109 performances

* The Rose of Persia ( music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood ) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 29

* Edward Jakobowski-Erminie ( libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton ) London production

The libretto was revised by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer to a Bohemian background as Vielka for a production in Vienna ( 1847 ).

At the time, it was understood that the simple libretto was a necessary backdrop for the dancing, which was splendidly staged and choreographed by Anisimova, who danced in the original production.

The origins of the ballet Swan Lake are rather obscured, and since there are very few records concerning the first production of the work to have survived, there can only be speculation about who the author of the original libretto was.

Although the libretto was by Marius Petipa, who exactly choreographed the first production has been debated.

Titles of all of the numbers listed here come from Marius Petipa's original scenario, as well as the original libretto and programs of the first production of 1892.

On 14 April, Le Figaro published a letter from Maeterlinck in which he completely dissociated himself from the production, complaining about the cuts that had been made in the libretto ( although he had originally sanctioned them ) and describing " the Pelléas in question " as " a work that is strange and hostile to me [...] I can only wish for its immediate and decided failure.

The production of the play caught the attention of Giacomo Puccini, who would compose the immortal opera Madama Butterfly to a libretto based on Belasco's play and Long's short story.

( A curious comment, considering that this production used an English adaptation by Edward J. Dent of Berlioz ' French-language libretto.

He has helped to found Botswana's first centre for opera training, the Number 1 Ladies ' Opera House, for whom he wrote the libretto of their first production, a version ofMacbeth set among a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta.

The first home-grown production at the theatre was a musical play in 1871, Marie, with music by Richard D ' Oyly Carte and a libretto by E. Spencer Mott.

In 2005, the book was turned into a full production of the opera, with libretto by Tony Kushner adapted from Hoffmeister's.