LIBRETTIST WANTED!!!

Hello, I am Morivou (If you don't already know)... and I am a composer. I am looking for a GOOD librettist who can write an opera with me. I really have no prerequisites except I need a sample of what you can do. Also, you have dibs on what the opera can be about. Thanks!

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how much would you pay?

Volunteering, n00b?

Sapphire, shut up.

Heh, I would accept but I'm already working with two composers :)

Trout, I won't hire anybody who wants money... One, I am too poor. Two, if i don't get paid, nobody gets paid.

If you need some ideas I used to write alot in previous years, I wouldn't mind sharing one or writing a new idea for you. PM me if interested

BUMP: I STILL NEED A LIBRETTIST!!! PM IF INTERESTED!!!

still looking for a librettist?

He's left the site for a while.

I am a librettist of many years standing (I also taught literary topics in universities). Recently I have written a libretto for a comic opera based on 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. This would require music of pastiche Sullivan-Offenbach type but also includes some serious arias fit for bel canto treatments. I would be glad to hear of any interested composers.

21 minutes ago, Riccardo said:

I am a librettist of many years standing (I also taught literary topics in universities). Recently I have written a libretto for a comic opera based on 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. This would require music of pastiche Sullivan-Offenbach type but also includes some serious arias fit for bel canto treatments. I would be glad to hear of any interested composers.

hi...... do you mean this kind of style ?

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11 hours ago, Riccardo said:

I am a librettist of many years standing (I also taught literary topics in universities). Recently I have written a libretto for a comic opera based on 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. This would require music of pastiche Sullivan-Offenbach type but also includes some serious arias fit for bel canto treatments. I would be glad to hear of any interested composers.

Hello! I have been wanting a libretist to compose my first REAL opera. I only have worked on smaller musical dramas before.

I work in the style of the late renaissance up to the early and mid baroque.

Do you have any librettos in that style?

Thank you for replying. I have written some libretti based on Greek classical drama and operas based on plays by Shakespeare. My libretto for 'Titus Andronicus' needs some revision but might respond to a classical baroque treatment. The original is a rather gory tragedy but I refine the gore (I hope) while maintaining the main plot thrust. I have also written libretti to form an operatic version of 'Twelfth Night', 'Pericles;, and 'The Winter's Tale' (also 'Cymbeline' but that one is less good, I think). I'm fond of my 'Pericles' libretto. I think it makes a good dramatic entity and would work well and dramatically on stage. I am very conscious of audience requirements - a strong plot and in opera particularly a transportation to a world of higher sensibility without losing basic pleasure in melody and dramatic thrust.

May I send you some sample lyrics - I have a whole sheaf of poems and opera lyrics which i could send you as well as the libretto for a particular opera. I have word and pdf files available.

For the record, I live in the Scottish Highlands and am in a final stages of a career teaching literature in Universities. Hardly young any more but wanting to branch out more into music drama. (Several of my straight plays have been performed in universities). I attach one of my straight plays and will send some songs and lyrics later today.

Every good wish,

Richard

JSWRM A Faithless Floréal.pdf

Here are some songs and lyrics. Some are from comedy shows and not suitable for Renaissance or Baroque modes but they give you an idea of my diversity of work. I'll work on 'Pericles' and 'Titus' over the next few days (though I shall be away for four days next week) and could send you a libretto for either in a couple of weeks' time, if you wish. You may not like either but it would be worth looking to see.

Best regards,

Richard

Poems and Songs by Richard Moore.pdf

9 hours ago, Riccardo said:

Here are some songs and lyrics. Some are from comedy shows and not suitable for Renaissance or Baroque modes but they give you an idea of my diversity of work. I'll work on 'Pericles' and 'Titus' over the next few days (though I shall be away for four days next week) and could send you a libretto for either in a couple of weeks' time, if you wish. You may not like either but it would be worth looking to see.

Best regards,

Richard

Thank you for answearing! Yes! I would love to see these librettos that you think it would fit, these poems you sent are awesome!

Currently i'm still in highschool, so i would probrably work on it on my free time, i will still see if its even something i can do now or later.

But do send me your librettos and the ones you think would be appropriate!

Good to hear from you. I'll send the 'Pericles' libretto in about a week's time. I shall be away for four days next week but will send it on after that. I may get the first scene out to you today - it's an extended musical section. The play dates from about 1611. You may think the lyrics too elaborate for a renaissance/baroque setting but at least you can have a look.

I'll include a summary of the plot. The original play is a piece of romantic magic realism - lost daughters rescued from the sea etc.

My version has some dialogue linking songs but not a great deal of it. The music carries most of the story.

Till later with best wishes,

Riccardo

Here's the first bit. The rest will come in about ten days' time. See what you think.

I wish I were still at high school - I'm much older though still lively, I hope.

JSWRM Pericles.pdf