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Definition of Libretto

Libretto
Libretto Li*bret"to (l[i^]*br[e^]t"t[-o]; It. l[-e]*br[asl]t"t[-o]), n.; pl. E. Librettos (-t[=o]z), It. Libretti (-t[-e]). [It., dim. of libro book, L. liber. See Libel.] (Mus.) (a) A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. (b) The words themselves.

Meaning of Libretto from wikipedia

- A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata...
- The Libretto was a line of subnotebook computers designed and produced by Toshiba. The line was distinguished by its combination of functionality and small...
- "Lolitawork Libretto" (少女仕掛けのリブレット, Shoujo Jikake no Riburetto) is the second studio album by singer and cellist Kanon Wakeshima. The song "Toumei no Kagi"...
- An electronic libretto system is used primarily in opera houses and is a device which presents translations of lyrics into an audience's language or transcribes...
- Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué....
- celebrated opera composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart emplo**** a libretto written by his close colleague Emanuel Schikaneder, the director of the...
- details. The libretto is stated to have been derived from della Valle's own play Anna Erizo (1820) but may have come from Romani's libretto Maometto (1817)...
- Ezio is an opera libretto by Pietro Metastasio, first officially set to music by Pietro Auletta and premièred in the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, on December...
- tabarro, libretto by Giuseppe Adami Suor Angelica, libretto by Giovacchino Forzano Gianni Schicchi, libretto by Giovacchino Forzano Turandot, libretto by Renato...
- including ten in the then-emerging opera genre. Of these, both the music and libretto for three are extant: L'Orfeo (1607), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640)...
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