Libretto is an English word with synonyms like script or book. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Libretto meaning
- The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an opera.
- A book containing such a text.
Using Libretto
- The main meaning on this page is: The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an opera. | A book containing such a text.
- Useful related words include: script, book, playscript.
- In the example corpus, libretto often appears in combinations such as: the libretto, libretto by, libretto was.
Context around Libretto
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Libretto
- In this selection, "libretto" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, poor, arabic, delibes, contains, poetically and adapted stand out and add context to how "libretto" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a libretto is distinct and a poor libretto to great. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "libretto" sits close to words such as anecdote, annan and averted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with libretto
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She sounds more profound than the libretto lets on. (9 words)
With music by Gaetano Donizetti and libretto by Felice Romani. (10 words)
She wrote the music and libretto for “Omar” alone on her banjo. (12 words)
After its world premiere in Copenhagen last month, Rolf Hind’s opera on the life and poetry of the Sufi mystic Rumi with a libretto by Dante Micheaux, comes to London in Frederic Wake-Walker’s staging for Mahogany Opera. (40 words)
In May, the Old Trout Puppet Workshop and Calgary Opera teamed up for Ghost Opera, which featured the Trout’s fabulously creepy creations performing a libretto penned by Giller Prize-winning Toronto novelist Andre Alexis to music by Veronika Krausas. (40 words)
As a team, though, they are naturals: his libretto poetically concise, her setting of it flowingly dramatic, with generous, singer-friendly melodies and an ear for the musicality of language on the level of syllables and words. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
A libretto is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot, in that the libretto contains all the words and stage directions, while a synopsis summarizes the plot.
On the other hand, the affiliation of a poor libretto to great music has sometimes given the libretto's author a kind of accidental immortality.
As a team, though, they are naturals: his libretto poetically concise, her setting of it flowingly dramatic, with generous, singer-friendly melodies and an ear for the musicality of language on the level of syllables and words.
She wrote the music and libretto for “Omar” alone on her banjo.
After its world premiere in Copenhagen last month, Rolf Hind’s opera on the life and poetry of the Sufi mystic Rumi with a libretto by Dante Micheaux, comes to London in Frederic Wake-Walker’s staging for Mahogany Opera.
He has written an original screenplay and a libretto, adapted two of his plays into screenplays and written many short plays.
The Arabic libretto has been written by Saudi poet Saleh Zamanan, while the music is by Australian composer Lee Bradshaw.
Its musical influences are varied; his libretto, an imagined story about Walt Whitman during the Civil War, seemed more in search of drama than in control of it.
The spring season will also include three Classical MPR broadcasts of previous Minnesota Opera productions, all at 7 p.m. Feb. 16: “Lakmé” (2007), music by Léo Delibes, libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.
Thursday (April 30) at 7 p.m. on With music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, “La Traviata” is consistently ranked among the top 10 most popular operas in the world.
As the writer Gustav von Aschenbach oscillates between his cerebral artistic calling and his inner sensuality, Piper’s libretto doesn’t shrink from Apollonian/Dionysian polarities and Socratic dialogue.
Beyond the libretto's poetry and its many iterations as the collaboration with tuttle progressed, Dessner said his thoughts turned to the images.
In May, the Old Trout Puppet Workshop and Calgary Opera teamed up for Ghost Opera, which featured the Trout’s fabulously creepy creations performing a libretto penned by Giller Prize-winning Toronto novelist Andre Alexis to music by Veronika Krausas.
She sounds more profound than the libretto lets on.
When he died, this past February, Previn was writing a monodrama to a libretto by Tom Stoppard, based on the first such.
Exploring the tragic tale of from a modern perspective, Faust, Alberta is a new piece composed by Simon Spagnolo with libretto by Giordano Trischitta.
Giuseppe Palomba's libretto centers on a pompous father (E. Scott Levin) who humiliates his daughter (Rachel Policar) by placing ads seeking a husband for her in the newspapers of every town they visit.
With music by Gaetano Donizetti and libretto by Felice Romani.
Add to this some structural problems with the libretto, and the opera's failure to make headway - despite an admirable and impressive score - becomes comprehensible.
A." Donizetti so dominated the preparation of the libretto that Ruffini refused to allow his name to be put on the score.
Common combinations with libretto
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the libretto 60×
- libretto by 20×
- libretto was 13×
- libretto for 11×
- libretto to 7×
- and libretto 7×
- with libretto 7×
- libretto of 7×
- to libretto 5×
- libretto in 5×