libretto
- noun
- /lɪˈbrɛtoʊ/
- I need to read the libretto before seeing the performance so I understand the plot.
- opera libretto
- final libretto
So you got to see it for your first time and you're familiar with the libretto.
- So you got to see it for your first time and you're familiar with the libretto.
Examples
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Beyond that, in order to succeed, a great libretto must, quite simply, demand to be sung.
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Each Opera Rehearsal Album comes complete with scores, an updated libretto, and click tracks.
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I need somebody to do a libretto for an opera I wrote.
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I was writing a libretto... for a musical version of "Satyricon."
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On one level, all that is required of any libretto is that it frees the music.
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The contemporary materials for the study of the libretto of Aeneas in Carthago are surprisingly many and reasonably accessible.
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After the opera's premiere in Germany, Kunzen tried to get the altered libretto translated into Danish.
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The libretto was originally written by Jens Baggesen, who in 1787-88 had written the libretto for Kunzen's Holger Danske.
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The libretto of the opera tells the story of love and betrayal.
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She studied the libretto carefully to follow the characters' dialogues during the show.
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Etymology
Libretto comes from the Italian libro ('book') plus the ending -etto ('small'), so it means 'little book' and is related to library. That's why a libretto is the small booklet that contains the words of an opera, the text you read to follow the story.