Hartel offered to share the profits of the sale of librettos with me, but in this case also I prefer to take at once a lump sum, to be settled upon.
Apart from adding in this way to the value of the copyright, I have opened to my publishers an unexpected source of income by transferring to them the right of printing the librettos for the theatres.
It is amusing to note that he wrote his Ring librettos in reverse order, that is, from what is now Götterdämmerung back to Das Rheingold.
His librettosare filled with super-noble purpose, with superhuman aspiration.
And in this Schubert has anticipated Wagner, since the words in which he writes are as much the absolute basis of his songs as Wagner's librettos are of his operas.
Mozart was altogether too careless in accepting librettos unworthy of his genius.
His uncle, Jacob Grau, was an operatic and theatrical manager, and for him, as a boy, he sold librettos in his opera house.
Boito was writing essays and librettos for others, with the unfinished "Nerone" lying in his desk, where it is still hidden.
It apparently understands very little, and the turning of the leaves of the librettos distracts me so much that I sometimes forget my rôle.
He had a number of librettos under consideration at that time, but he cast them all aside at once.
The older opera librettos left much to be desired from the dramatic and poetic standpoints.
The librettos of other days were, to say the least, ridiculous.
Some bad Italian librettos were set to wretched music and served up with momentary success.
Jouy had, in the first instance, brought Rossini a poem of seven hundred verses, written without any particular view to the one purpose for which librettos should exist.
Rossini went to live with his father in Bologna, it is true; but he did not go there until 1836, so that this could have had little influence in making him determine to send back his librettos six years before.
But though Metastasio (as I think) has exemplified in his librettoshow opera texts ought not to be written, there are quantities of Italian poems which are absolute models of words for music.
Smith, who must have gone about all summer perspiring librettos and dripping them into the laps of all the stars, has woven a role for Miss Nielsen that is stellar but difficult to comprehend.
They were both of the familiar "prima donna in tights" type, and theirlibrettos were without striking originality, and their scores showed only commonplace tunefulness.
Nothing survives of these librettosto enlighten us as to their literary characteristics, and the other details of the performance do not concern us here.
Leslie's collaborator was the accomplished scholar Chorley, who has certainly prepared one of the most refined and attractive librettos ever furnished a composer.
His abilities as a writer are very clearly shown in the librettos to his works.
Unfortunately he was easily turned aside from this path, and induced afterward to waste his powers upon librettos of no value whatever.
Better librettos are written for operas; and public taste, in almost every country where opera is given, demands that the lyric stage shall present for consideration a genuine drama per musica.
All his librettos are his own, and they are not mere schemes of dialogue, arias, processions, and ballets, but remarkably fine dramatic poems.
A natural result of such rules was that opera librettos were very poor stuff generally, and had little dramatic sense or force.
Even the opera, which liked the larger framework of five acts when Scribe was writing librettos for Halevy and Meyerbeer, is now content with only three, since Wagner revealed his skill as a librettist.
Indeed, many modern composers are so convinced of the necessity thatlibrettos shall be attractive in themselves that they are continually borrowing popular plays to deck with melody.
Bizet wrote other operas besides 'Carmen,' and if these other operas have vanished from the stage, the reason may be that the librettos to which they were composed were not as ingenious and not as interesting as the book of 'Carmen.
We cannot fail to perceive that the librettosof Gilbert and of Meilhac and Halevy are admirable in themselves, that they would please even without the music of Sullivan and Offenbach, and that they are truly comedies of a kind.
Most of the authors of these librettos remained unknown: they used pseudonyms, partly because playwriting was not an occupation that befitted a scholar, and partly because in these works they criticized the conditions of their day.
Who would think of judging Wagner from the texts of his librettos alone, and of ignoring his power as a scene creator and a musician?
He had energy enough to go on writing operas, but apparently not intelligence to see that his librettos were worth setting, or to ensure that anything should come of them when they were set.
It is, of course, well known that Wagner was the author of his own librettos and showed himself a dramatist of the highest order for the lyric stage.
He finished the librettos of the "Nibelung" dramas in 1853.
Perhaps people were so accustomed to the books of nonsense which figured as opera librettos that they thought "The Ring of the Nibelung" was so great a work that its action and climaxes were beyond the scope of musical expression.
The sum of all that has been written concerning the book of "The Ring of the Nibelung" is probably larger than the sum of all that has been written concerning the librettos used by all other composers.
As a matter of fact, the book of The Magic Flute happens to be one of the best librettos in existence from the point of view of good theater.
The Russian librettos do no more, nor the operas based on mythology.
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