of Night (1953, with W. H. Auden; published in Botteghe Oscure XII; never set to music) Elegy for Young Lovers (1961, with W. H. Auden, for music by Hans Werner Henze). Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne. Love Propitiated (pbd. 1963, for music by Carlos Chavez; first performed as Panfilo and Lauretta, 1957, then as Love Propitated, 1961). New York: Mills Music. The Bassarids (1966, with W. H. Auden, for music by Hans Werner Henze). Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne. Love's Labour's Lost (1973, with W. H. Auden, for music by Nicolas Nabokov). Berlin: Bote & Bock. Translations (published) Bluebeard's Castle (1952; translation of the libretto by Béla Balázs for the opera by Béla Bartók). New York: Boosey & Hawkes Falstaff (1954; translation of the libretto of the opera by Arrigo Boito). New York: G. Ricordi. The Magic Flute (1956, with W. H. Auden, translation of the libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder for an NBC Opera Theatre production of the opera by Mozart). New York: Random House. Anne Boleyn (1959; translation of the libretto by Felice Romani for the opera by Donizetti). New York: G. Ricordi. The Prize Fight (1959; translation of the libretto by Luciano Conosciani for Vieri Tosatti's opera Partita a Pugni). Milan: Ricordi. Don Giovanni (1961, with W. H. Auden, translation of the libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte for an NBC Opera Theatre production of the opera by Mozart). New York: Schirmer. The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, translation of the libretto by Bertolt Brecht for the opera by Kurt Weill. (pbd. 1976, with W. H. Auden). Boston: David Godine. Arcifanfano, King of Fools (pbd. with a recording, 1992, with W. H. Auden, translation of the libretto by Carlo Goldoni for the opera by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf). Editions An Elizabethan Song Book (1955, with W. H. Auden and Noah Greenberg). New York: Anchor Books. References Sources Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden: A Biography (1981). W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings by W. H. Auden (1988), ed. by Edward Mendelson. Dorothy J. Farnan, Auden in Love (1984) Thekla Clark, Wystan and Chester (1995). Richard Davenport-Hines, Auden (1996) External links W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman letters to Irving and Anne Weiss, 1940s-2000, held by the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. 1921 births 1975 deaths 20th-century American poets American opera librettists Brooklyn College