libretto

Examples

• All

• Beyond that, in order to succeed, a great libretto must, quite simply, demand to be sung.

  Academic text (2000)

• Each Opera Rehearsal Album comes complete with scores, an updated libretto, and click tracks.

  Blog text (6)

• I need somebody to do a libretto for an opera I wrote.

  Factotum (2005)

• I was writing a libretto... for a musical version of "Satyricon."

  Trick (1999)

• On one level, all that is required of any libretto is that it frees the music.

  Academic text (2000)

• The contemporary materials for the study of the libretto of Aeneas in Carthago are surprisingly many and reasonably accessible.

  Academic text (2000)

• After the opera's premiere in Germany, Kunzen tried to get the altered libretto translated into Danish.

  Academic text (1998)

• The libretto was originally written by Jens Baggesen, who in 1787-88 had written the libretto for Kunzen's Holger Danske.

  Academic text (1998)

• The libretto of the opera tells the story of love and betrayal.

• She studied the libretto carefully to follow the characters' dialogues during the show.

Synonyms

S

script

vslibretto

484 3.2

The written words used by actors in a play, film, or broadcast

focuses on sung theatrical text rather than a written guide for actors

W

words

vslibretto

4 1.3

The text you sing in a song or musical

is for the full sung text of long staged musical works like opera

Surface Forms

Etymology