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/ləbrˈɛtoʊ/ /lɪbrˈɛtoʊ/ Listen

Libretto

noun

(pl. E. librettos, It. libretti)

The words of an opera or musical play.

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"Libretto" Quotes from Famous Books

... of two kinds, and one supplements the other. The human voice supplies the libretto, while the accompaniment is provided by a syncopated and tympanum-piercing ping-ping, suggestive of a giant mosquito ...

— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)

... dragons, horses, snakes, crazy valkyrs, mermaids, half-mad humans, gods, demons, dwarfs, and giants. What else is all this but old-fashioned Italian opera with a new name? What else but an inartistic mixture of Scribe libretto and Northern mythology? Music-drama—fudge! Making music that one can see is a death-blow to a lofty idealization ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

... order of talent is a new opera by Franz Schreker, Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin (1913). Schreker's earlier opera, Der ferne Klang, I missed, but I enjoyed the later composition, charged as it is with fantasy, atmosphere, bold climaxes, and framing a legendary libretto. The ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... a libretto, the means of producing dramatic effects that the French comedy or the grand opera never approached, and such as made Bayreuth seem thin and feeble. Duke William's barons must have clung to his voice and action as ...

— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

Words linked to "Libretto" : librettist, book, script, playscript