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libretto
[li-bret-oh]
noun
plural
librettos, librettithe text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
a book or booklet containing such a text.
libretto
/ ɪˈɛəʊ /
noun
a text written for and set to music in an opera, etc
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of libretto1
Example Sentences
From a forthcoming choral libretto premiering in Finland to a graphic novel retelling of the "Epic of Gilgamesh," Macfarlane’s creative orbit keeps expanding.
Since 1996, she has published books of poetry, short fiction, essays and graphic novels; she wrote the libretto for an opera; and she wrote a novel that will remain unread for nearly 100 years.
Kentridge’s libretto is an assemblage of the characters’ words and a range of other historical sources.
He would grab a bunch of different librettos and “Wicked” was one of them.
This was particularly notable in a reading of the libretto for a proposed new opera by Ted Hearn, one of our most politically outspoken composers, based on Ursula K Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed.”
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