He wrote an entirely new libretto in two acts, going back to the historical documents of her trial as a source for the new text.
Monleone changed the opera 'beyond recognition', setting the music to a new libretto.
French composers at the Opéra generally wrote music to new librettos, which had to be approved by the directors of the company.
Although not a grand opera, the new libretto provided Sullivan with the opportunity to write his most ambitious score to date.
The 1970s version, first produced by the Light Opera of Manhattan, has a new libretto and is more sentimental than the original.
Candide would be more popular seventeen years later with a new libretto by Hugh Wheeler.
In the early 1740s he began setting new Metastasian libretti unadapted, and his personal relations with the librettist also improved significantly at around this time.
Mihalovici had asked Beckett if he would write a new libretto for him.
Every time old Jaconi thought he'd proved something, however, someone came along with a new libretto that contradicted it.
In 2006, the playwright Konstantin Uchitel wrote a new libretto for the same music.