libretto
noun
the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
libretti
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pluralof libretto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Zigman was impressed by “Silent Night,” the 2011 opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, and added Campbell, a veteran of roughly 40 libretti.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
“I spent a great deal of my time during my college career in creative writing, so the idea of writing my own libretti seemed no stretch at all for me.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021
But while Vavrek’s libretti have powered a string of gritty operas, the Yale-trained Mazzolli is most identified with downtown chamber music, having written works for Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird and other groups.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2016
In addition to poetry, she has written essays, criticism and libretti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2016
If he was, in fact, the author of the libretti, we can have little difficulty in concluding that they and his sermons were built on the same text.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
