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the librettists for Saint-Saëns 's Le timbre d’argent Jules Barbier and Michel Carré , also wrote the librettos for Gounod ’s Faust Offenbach ’s Les contes d'Hoffmann
the libretto for Howard Hanson 's opera Merry Mount
the libretto for Rameau 's first opera , Hippolyte et Aricie playwright and librettist abbé Pellegrin
the librettoes for Tchaikovsky 's operas Vakula the Smith Cherevichki Gogol 's stories by the poet Yakov Polonsky
an unknown manuscript of opera libretto by writer Mikhail Bulgakov was found in Isaak Dunayevsky '1955 ?
Spanish poet and librettist Federico Romero (pictured) was originally a mining engineer ?
Catherine the Great wrote several comedies and an opera libretto for the productions of the Hermitage Theatre Saint Petersburg ?
Leonide Massine wrote the choreography and the libretto for the ballet La Boutique fantasque danced in the lead role?
Julian Sturgis librettist and lyricist, was the first American to play for the winning team in an English FA Cup Final in 1873 ?
Lawrence Turner Parliamentary petition calling for W. S. Gilbert 's copyright on the libretti of Gilbert and Sullivan operas to be extended indefinitely, was the grandson of comic actor George Grossmith who starred in them?
Carnegie Medal -winning children’s author Berlie Doherty libretti for three operas ?
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Question 1 : For example, in the aria '________ ' from Puccini's Turandot
Question 3 : ________ (1698–1782) (real name Pietro
Trapassi) was one of the most highly regarded librettists in
Europe.
Question 4 : But even in late 18th-century London, reviews rarely mentioned the
name of the librettist, as ________
lamented in his Memoirs.
Question 5 : The term "libretto" is
also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works,
such as mass ,
________ , and sacred cantata .
Question 6 : Just as with literature and song, the libretto has its share of
problems and challenges with ________ .
Question 7 : ________ is
perhaps most famous in this regard, with his transformations of
Germanic legends and events into epic subjects for his operas and
music dramas.
Question 8 : In some cases, the operatic adaptation has become more
famous than the literary text on which it was based, as with ________ 's
Pelléas et Mélisande Maurice Maeterlinck .
Question 9 : An example is ________ 's
inept librettist Varesco .
Question 10 : By the 20th century some librettists became recognized as part
of famous collaborations, as with ________ .
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