The Opera Libretto – Adaptation of A Canonical Literary Text, The Opera O Noapte furtunoasă by Paul Constantinescu

The opera libretto, born very often through the adaptation of large texts, is the foundation of an opera composition. What interests us is how it can independently support musicaly a story, while also preserving its quality as a literary text. On the other hand, we raise the question whether the libretto should work in the absence of the integrative, complementary background, which defines, in fact, the genre of opera - music. The first part of the study focuses on the opera libretto and the adaptation of the literary text, while the second part focuses more on Romanian music and, in particular, on the libretto of the opera O noapte furtunoasă by Paul Constantinescu.