As will be seen in the chapter on La Boheme, this incident was made use of by the librettists in the third act of that opera.
The librettists were content to string together four more or less detached scenes from the story.
In the matter of following Murger's story, which as a novel is the most free in the whole range of modern literature, the librettists have been careful to give the spirit rather than the letter.
By giving the final scene in America, whither Des Grieux follows the ruined girl, Puccini's librettists follow the Abbe's original story rather more closely.
The French playwrights, if not good librettists themselves, are certainly cunning contrivers of plots on which good libretti may be founded.
Waez and Royer, the librettists of "La Favorita," to which M.
He, too, liked the idea of the opera, and the librettists went to work.
Indeed, the bond ought to be closer, for one man wrote books and music as well of the Grail dramas, whereas different librettists and different composers created the Figaro comedies.
Here are poetry and beauty; but not matter for three-quarters of an hour of a rambling musical dialogue, such as the librettists and composer of "Cavalleria Rusticana" have strained and tortured it into.
The likeness to "Carmen" is accidental, after all, though Bizet's opera was not without influence upon the work of librettists and composer.
New York was full of librettists who would have done the work equally well for half the money, but, like most managers, Mr Goble had the mental processes of a sheep.
Certainly the librettists of Gounod's opera have shown but scant regard for Goethe's intentions, but they have at any rate concocted a story with a well-regulated and dramatically logical plot.
For years Gounod had cherished the desire of setting Goethe's "Faust" to music, and in 1855 he mentioned the subject to the librettists Michel Carre and Jules Barbier, who immediately set to work and provided the required text.
Signori Illica and Giacosa, librettistsin ordinary to Ricordi & Co.
Pursuing the search chronologically, the librettists next came upon Cain and Abel, who offered a more fruitful subject for dramatic and musical invention.
Enough, however, of this excellent but somewhat fatiguing irony; and let me conclude this chapter with a few words about the librettists of the 18th century.
Sterbini proposed to arrange it for music in a new form; Rossini acquiesced, and the librettists went to work.
Several of Victor Hugo's admirably constructed dramas have also been laid under contribution by the Italian librettists of the present day.
New York was full of librettists who would have done the work equally well for half the money, but, like most managers, Mr. Goble had the mental processes of a sheep.
In these days of bitter quarrelling over the rights of authors in their works, it may be amusing to know that Victor Hugo contested the rights of Italian librettists to borrow their plots from French plays.
The duration and climax of Auber's musical career were founded on his friendship and artistic alliance with Scribe, one of the most fertile librettists and playwrights of modern times.
He appears to have had little ambition, and was content throughout his career to fit his saccharine melodies to whatever words the librettists of the day chose to supply.
The duration and climax of Auber's musical career were founded on his friendship and, artistic alliance with Scribe, one of the most fertile librettists and playwrights of modern times.
In these days of bitter quarreling over the rights of authors in their works, it may be amusing to know that Victor Hugo contested the rights of Italian librettists to borrow their plots from French plays.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "librettists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
