Sentences with phrase «musical librettos»

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It is a complex piece, and so dependent on its musical setting, which is eclectically rich, that a treatment of the libretto alone is something of a travesty.

(2005), a British soccer drama starring Kuno Becker and Alessandro Nivola; Flushed Away (2006), a DreamWorks CG - animated picture about a mouse named Roddy who gets flushed down the toilet and winds up in a vermin - infested city called Ratropolis; and Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, a hallucinatory musical love story, set against the turbulent backdrop of the»60s, with countless Beatles songs providing the backdrop.The same period found Clement hard at work developing several stage musicals: Victoria's Secret, with a score by Paul Williams and Dave Stewart; Helen of Troy, libretto by Brendan Healy and AC / DC frontman Brian Johnson.

From Georges Bizet's great, tuneful, massively popular opera, based on Prosper Merimee's novel about a lusty cigarette girl and the soldier who is obsessed with her, unwisely: A compelling noir musical, with an African - American cast (headed by Dorothy Dandridge as femme fatale Carmen and Harry Belafonte as soldier Joe), lyrics and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, and direction by Otto Preminger.

«I would like to write a ballet, I'd like to write a libretto, I want to write a musical... I've got a lot of other things I'd like to do.»

She wrote libretti for ten musical works with her long - time companion, composer Robert Starer, who died in 2001.

In June 2015 Jemison premieres a new musical performance in the Museum galleries, with original libretto by the artist and a score composed collaboratively by the artist and Courtney Bryan.

Featuring a libretto to a musical score, created with fellow artist and poet Heather Phillipson, Edwin Burdis» installation and performance centres on an allegorical painting which depicts, with great absurdity, how we use and abuse our fruits and resources on this planet to fulfil our own desires.