Word: librettos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...musical theater's last megahit. The Nathan Lane starrer, which opened in April 2001, was also the first show in ages to break the unwritten 20-year rule for Broadway shows: be dramatic, tragic if possible, and always brown. Mel Brooks, who wrote the score and co-wrote the libretto from his fondly-recalled old film, reminded theatergoers that there used to be something, a very agreeable thing, called "musical comedy" - emphasis on the comedy. Audiences devoured "The Producers" like the first spoonful of chocolate sundae after Yom Kippur. If the show wasn't quite the laugh-till-you-break...
...handful of English concentrators get selected each year to write creative theses. Some write poetry, others essays, and a few try their hand at fiction. But Joe C. Gfaller ’01 did what no one had done: he wrote a musical. Last year he composed the lyrics, libretto and music for a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. And as if that were not an adequate project, he also wrote a 45-page justification of adaptation and the nature of narrative. “I purported a theory of means through which a story...
...With the libretto in English, more attention shifts to the acting, but the cast is up to the challenge. They offer cleverly nuanced performances that energize the characters’ dialogue...
...star of a Mozart opera, though, is always its score, and the orchestra, directed by Schuler, performs the original score with polish. The solid orchestration grounds the adapted opera with a familiar sound that provides the necessary foundation for liberties with the libretto...
...despite the merits and strengths of the performance, it is impossible not to miss the richness of the Italian Libretto. The production does offer a small taste of the original language in the duet in Act III between Susanna and Rosina, in which Rosina, in a wonderfully ironic twist, suggests writing a note to the Governor in Italian. The ensuing duet between the two superbly talented singers recalls the historical and emotional associations the original libretto is able to conjure. These qualities are what Salzmann defines in his Note on the Translation as ties “to a world...