Compositeur-librettiste : choix ou nécessité ? by Aude Ameille

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Hamlet à l’épreuve des librettistes by Francis Guinle

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L’Amleto d’Arrigo Boito : deux versions énigmatiques avec Ducis et Dumas en dialogue by Costantino Maeder

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L’opéra, miroir des sociétés européennes by Clémence Schupp

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L’Opéra-Comique, 1945-1970 : de nouveaux opéras et leurs livrets ou de l’audace exogène by Frank Langlois

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“JANKO”, THE “FOLK OPERA” LISZT NEVER WROTE by Mónika IVÁNYI-PAPP

“…Rubinstein (the Russian Liszt) composed music on the basis of the libretto and called it Kinder der Heide (Children of the Moorland). …”
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Ancora sulle traduzioni di Montale dal "Midsummer-Night’s Dream". Nuovi testimoni e documenti by Enrico Tatasciore

“…Accanto al copione si analizza un esemplare del libretto donato da Montale a Mario Praz: qui le postille di Montale ribadiscono le scelte metriche e traduttive originarie. …”
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UNE PERSPECTIVE SÉMANTIQUE INTÉGRALISTE SUR L’INTERFÉRENCE TEXTE-MUSIQUE DANS LE CAS DU THÉÂTRE MUSICAL by Mirona BENCE-MUK

“…These correspondences refer to the existence of particular metaphoric strategies within the musical discourse, collaborating from the same position with the above mentioned strategies, presented in the text of the libretto in order to enhance the mystery and to articulate the metaphorical meaning existent in the final artistic text: libretto accompanied by the musical discourse. …”
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Le Henri VIII de Saint-Saëns : entre affirmation idéologique et liberté théâtrale by Thierry Santurenne

“…Yet, the ideological purpose of the libretto is nuanced by the composer’s reliance on specific musical and dramatic formulas.…”
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Jane Eyre de Michael Berkeley et de David Malouf : La transposition opératique d’un grand classique de la littérature anglaise by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…Premiered on June 30, 2000 by Music Theatre Wales at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, this opera is based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë and the libretto is written by the Australian poet, novelist, playwright and librettist, David Malouf. …”
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Les Fiançailles au couvent : Prokofiev adapte La Duègne de Sheridan by Tetiana Zolozova

“…How does his interpretation, which revives the tradition of opera buffa, compare with Sheridan’s libretto and what personal viewpoint did he adopt? …”
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La Jolie Fille de Perth de Bizet  ou comment trahir et honorer Walter Scott by Gilles Couderc

“…What remains of Walter Scott’s Fair Maid of Perth in Bizet’s 1867 Jolie Fille de Perth, an opera in 4acts on a libretto by Jules Adenis and Vernoy de Saint-Georges? …”
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Voss, du roman de Patrick White au livret de David Malouf : simple adaptation ou transformation de l’imaginaire national ? by Anne Le Guellec-Minel

“…When the opera was premiered in 1986, the libretto was praised both by the critics and the public for its success in making use of the dramatic potential of the novel and, beyond that, in bringing out the musical possibilities of a style which had often been described as difficult and obscure. …”
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Cadrage, décadrage et recadrage dans Baa Baa Black Sheep : A Jungle Tale de David Malouf et Michael Berkeley by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…“Baa Baa Black Sheep” is used as the central element of his libretto, and episodes and characters from The Jungle Books are incorporated to draw parallelism between the main topics of the two texts. …”
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 « Le Crépuscule de la chevalerie » : le cycle arthurien de Rutland Boughton (1878-1960) et l’épopée nationale by Nadège Le Lan

“…The study focuses on the libretto, through both the adaptation of the national myth and the reference to Wagner.…”
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The Rape of Lucretia, premier « opéra anglais » de Britten ?  by Gilles Couderc

“…But the collaboration of designer John Piper for the scenery and of Ronald Duncan for the libretto, the resort to dramatic verse, the borrowings from Blake, Donne and Shakespeare, as well as the musical references to English oratorio and Purcell and to Britten’s own personal questioning contribute to making it Britten’s first “English opera”.…”
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Piecing the Broken Golden Bowl: Dislocation and Diplomacy in Nixon in China by John Adams and Alice Goodman by Mathieu Duplay

“…The purpose of this article is to examine the role of line breaks in the libretto Alice Goodman wrote for Nixon in China (1987), her first collaboration with composer John Adams. …”
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Un « opéra radiophonique » : Ariane de Georges Delerue et Michel Polac by Jérôme Rossi

“…Tersely described as “a chamber opera”, the work called Ariane was composed by Georges Delerue on a libretto by Michel Polac. Conceived expressly for the radio, the opera begs several questions linked to its being a broadcast: the notion of purely “vocal characters”, the role of silence, and the link with and use of technology. …”
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Koanga de Frederick Delius : cherche premier opéra afro-américain désespérément by Benoît Depardieu

“…Through an analysis of the libretto as well as the reviews of the various performances from the late 1890’s to the early 1970’s, this article aims to assess the African-American criteria of Koanga.…”
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Le viol de Lucrèce de Britten : un livret d’opéra qui revisite les fondamentaux du genre by Pascal Terrien

“…His first chamber opera, The Rape of Lucretia on a libretto in verse by Ronald Duncan constitutes an original experiment in the musical world of the time. …”
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