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libretto and was
It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.
Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.
The libretto to Armida was by Marco Coltellini the house poet for the imperial theaters.
Again a classic of Renaissance literature was the basis of the libretto by Boccherini, in this case a comic mock-epic by Tassoni, in which a war between Modena and Bologna ensues over a stolen bucket.
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.
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.
The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.
The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.
Around this time, he composed individual numbers to a libretto by Vincenza Mombelli called Demetrio e Polibio, which was handed to the boy in pieces.
The libretto for Tancredi was an arrangement by Gaetano Rossi of Voltaire's tragedy Tancrède.
The libretto of this opera by Giovanni Schmidt was in many of its incidents an anticipation of those presented to the world a few years later in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth.
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.
The libretto was by Étienne Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, but their version was revised by Armand Marrast.
Edgar failed: it was a bad story and Fontana's libretto was poor.
Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

libretto and performed
And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.
And Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera " Apollo et Hyacinthus " was performed by males only, although the libretto differed from the original text of Ovidius to reduce homosexual relations among Apollon, Hyacinthus, and Zephyrus.
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.
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 ).
* The opera Ormindo is first performed in Venice: music by Francesco Cavalli and libretto by Giovanni Faustini.
First performed in 1979, Amadeus was inspired by a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called Mozart and Salieri ( which was also used as the libretto for an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897 ).
The libretto was written for a dramma per musica in three acts by Francesco Gasparini, performed that same year in the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, but the same libretto was put in music also by Nicola Porpora ( 1711, in Neaples, as Il trionfo di Flavio Anicio Olibrio ) and Leonardo Vinci ( Naples, 1728, as Ricimero ), and Andrea Bernasconi ( 1737, Wien, as Flavio Anicio Olibrio o La tirannide debellata ).
The libretto was also rewritten for the Ricimero by Niccolo Jommelli, performed at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1740.
In 1874, Hermann Goetz created Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung, a comic opera first performed at the National Theatre Mannheim in Germany ; the libretto was by Joseph Widmann and Goetz.
Planché in turn translated the libretto of this opera into English in 1827 where it was performed at the Lyceum also.
With Charpentier's help, he composed an opera, Philomèle, performed at his residence in 1694 ; and in 1705 the prince wrote a second opera, Penthée, to a libretto by the Marquis de La Fare.
The Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks wrote an opera entitled Nausicaa ( libretto by Robert Graves ), first performed in 1961 at the Athens Festival.
Composed by Gary Carpenter to a libretto by Ian Barnett, the opera was commissioned by the village and performed largely by the villagers.
The libretto of the musical play Pompey by Mrs. Philips, performed at Smock Alley in 1663, credits him as the composer of the tunes.
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 ).
* Giacomo Puccini-La fanciulla del West ( The Girl of the Golden West ), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in New York City
Following this he began on two new projects, an opera by Scribe based on the biblical story of Judith, and an opéra comique, Le pardon de Ploërmel, ( also known as Dinorah, the title given to the Italian version performed at London ) to a libretto by Jules Barbier.
Faustina performed in the September 1735 premiere of Tito Vespasiano ( another adapted Metastsio libretto ) at Pesaro.
Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin.
He supplied three, which were performed and published with the libretto.
At roughly the same time, Aarre Merikanto composed the opera Juha to the libretto by Aino Ackté, who rejected it and asked Leevi Madetoja to compose another version instead ; Merikanto's Juha was first performed after the composers death in 1958, and is now known as one of the best Finnish operas.
Along with Zorrilla's work ( still performed every year on November 2nd throughout the Spanish-speaking world ), arguably the best known version is Don Giovanni, an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, first performed in Prague in 1787 ( with Giacomo Casanova probably in the audience ) and itself the source of inspiration for works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus.

libretto and original
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.
The libretto of Doctor Atomic by Peter Sellars draws on original source material, including personal memoirs, recorded interviews, technical manuals of nuclear physics, declassified government documents, and the poetry of the Bhagavad Gita, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, and Muriel Rukeyser.
The voice types which appear in this table are those listed in the original libretto.
Much of the libretto is original.
Seats now include monitors for the electronic libretto system provided by radio marconi, an Italian company, allowing audiences to follow opera libretti in English and Italian in addition to the original language.
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.
The libretto of a musical, if the musical is adapted from a play ( or even a novel ), may even borrow their source's original dialogue liberally-much as Oklahoma!
Pages from an 1859 libretto for Ernani, with the original Italian lyrics, English translation, and musical notation for one of the arias Libretti have been made available in several formats, some more nearly complete than others.
George and Ira Gershwin, along with DuBose Heyward, based the libretto of their opera version, Porgy and Bess, not on the original novel, but on the play.
Lastly, " OperaAction ", the " Youth Education Program " established a program of events, including three Youth performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and, in 1986, Winds of the Solstice, an original youth opera created by 70 students working on libretto, music, choreography and orchestration and presented at the Sydney Opera House.
He added a tenor song for Beard: " Their sound is gone out ", which had appeared in Jennens's original libretto but had not been in the Dublin performances.
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.
In 2007, Heggie composed a chamber opera, Three Decembers, based on original text by McNally titled Some Christmas Letters ( and a Couple of Phone Calls, Too ), with libretto by Gene Scheer.
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.
Some institute the changes made by Gorsky and Vainonen while others, like Balanchine, utilize the original libretto.
In recent years, revisionist productions, including those by Mark Morris, Matthew Bourne, and Mikhail Chemiakin have appeared ; these depart radically from both the original 1892 libretto and Vainonen's revival, while Maurice Bejart's version completely discards the original plot and characters.
Below is a synopsis based on the original 1892 libretto by Marius Petipa.
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.
Linley ( sometimes called Lidley or Liddel ) himself could have written this original English libretto, but scholarship by Edward Olleson, A. Peter Brown ( who prepared a particularly fine " authentic " score ) and H. C. Robbins Landon, tells us that the original writer remains anonymous.

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