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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny () is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.
* Falstaff ( 1799 ), Antonio Salieri's opera, with a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, which is also based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.
* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.
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.
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.
The story is the basis of an opera, The Judgment of Paris, with a libretto by William Congreve, that was set to music by four composers in London, 1700-1701.
Opera ( English plural: operas ; Italian plural: opere ) is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text ( called a libretto ) and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting.
Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).
Topelius wrote the libretto in Swedish ( though it was translated later by others ), but its subject is emphatically Finnish.
* The opera Ormindo is first performed in Venice: music by Francesco Cavalli and libretto by Giovanni Faustini.
Aida (), sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette.
La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
Il trovatore ( The Troubadour ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador ( 1836 ) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo.
Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien ( Don Carlos, Infante of Spain ) by Friedrich Schiller.
The Magic Flute (, K. 620 ) is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.
The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution ( Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L ' inutile precauzione ) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini.
La bohème is an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger.
According to its title page, the libretto of La bohème is based on Henri Murger's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s.
Much of the libretto is original.
Among Leoncavallo's libretti for other composers is his contribution to the libretto for Puccini's Manon Lescaut.
Rossini's opera, now known as Il barbiere di Siviglia, is now acknowledged as Rossini's greatest work, while Paisiello's opera is only infrequently produced — a strange instance of poetical vengeance, since Paisiello himself had many years previously endeavoured to eclipse the fame of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi by resetting the libretto of his famous intermezzo, La serva padrona.
The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by Gottlieb Stephanie.
It would seem that something along these lines did happen — that is, Mozart decided to play a major role in the shaping of the libretto, insisting that Stephanie make changes for dramatic and musical effect.

libretto and adaptation
This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.
The libretto was written for the adaptation by the children's novelist John Emlyn Edwards.
The French adaptation of the libretto was published in 1865.
The published libretto includes a note from the librettists briefly discussing their adaptation.
Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of play, Belisarius, first staged in Munich in 1820 and then ( in Italian ) in Naples in 1826.
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 Bel ' sky, or an entirely original work.
Comden and Green wrote the libretto for the 1970 musical Applause, an adaptation of the film All About Eve, and wrote the book and lyrics for 1978's On the Twentieth Century, with music by Cy Coleman.
He appears as a character in the opera, composed by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and has the title-role in the opera Farinelli by the English composer John Barnett, first performed at Drury Lane in 1839, where his part is, oddly, written for a tenor ( this work is itself an adaptation of the anonymous, premiered in Paris in 1835 ).
He contributed the score to the famed 1941 radio presentation of Fletcher's original story, The Hitch-Hiker, on the Orson Welles Show ; and Fletcher helped to write the libretto for his operatic adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
Hwang co-wrote the English language libretto for an operatic adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland with music ( and part of the libretto ) by the Korean composer Unsuk Chin, which received its world premiere at the Bavarian State Opera in 2007 and was released on DVD in 2008.
* Lost Highway ( opera )-a 2003 opera adaptation of the film by Olga Neuwirth with the libretto by Elfriede Jelinek
McNally has collaborated on several operas, including composer Jake Heggie's adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean's book, Dead Man Walking, for which McNally wrote the libretto.
In the adaptation by Dumas on which Petipa based his libretto, her name is Marie Silberhaus.
* Dialogues des carmélites ( Dialogues of the Carmelites ) 1949 — screenplay and later libretto adaptation of Gertrud von Le Fort's Song at the Scaffold
From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano, a musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Anthony Burgess ( libretto and lyrics ) and Michael J. Lewis ( music ).
( A curious comment, considering that this production used an English adaptation by Edward J. Dent of Berlioz ' French-language libretto.
In 1992, she provided the story for The Vampyr: A Soap Opera, the BBC's adaptation of Heinrich August Marschner's opera Der Vampyr, which featured a new libretto by Charles Hart.
Another musical adaptation, Mandragola, composed by Doug Riley with libretto by Alan Gordon, made its debut in Canada over CBC Radio in October 1977, and was later issued as an LP record on the CBC label.
This verse translation became a classic in its own right and later provided the basis for the libretto to Tchaikovsky's operatic adaptation.
Andrew Neiderman has written the libretto for a musical stage adaptation of The Devil's Advocate.
For example, in 1976 he wrote, on one hand Stone and A-A-America ( pronounced as a sneeze ), two agit-prop-style plays, respectively for Gay Sweatshop and the Almost-Free Theatre and, on the other, an adaptation of Webster's The White Devil for Michael Lindsay-Hogg to re-open the Old Vic and a libretto for the German composer Hans Werner Henze to open at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden: We Come to the River.
While it was not Verdi's first grand opera for Paris ( the first being his adaptation of I Lombardi in 1847 under the new title of Jerusalem ), the libretto which Verdi was using had been written about 20 years before at the height of the French grand opera tradition, which " meant that Verdi was writing his first ( original ) opéra at a point at which the genre was in a state of flux ".
The libretto is a faithful adaptation of Cervantes's text, from Chapter 26 of the second part of Don Quixote, with some words edited.

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