The word "libretto" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the text of an opera, play, or other extended musical work. Example sentence: The libretto of the opera tells the story of a brave prince in search of true love.
Whereas until the end of the 19th century there were writers practiced in the art of libretto writing and thoroughly schooled in the repertoire, in the 20th century, it was left in the hands of dilettantes.
Related: ETO general director: 'there is no traditional way of doing opera' There were some notable exceptions: WH Auden, for example, who knew and loved opera and understood how distinct libretto was from poetry.
Inside the bulging filing cabinet Clapp also found an unproduced version of Frank Wedekind's Lulu, the libretto of an unfinished opera based on Virginia Woolf's surreal novel Orlando and several screenplays.
To see how libretto works, you should see and hear as much repertoire as you can.
It retells the familiar legend of the sword in the stone, heavily influenced by Wagner's libretto for his opera, "Lohengrin".
All the pieces he has chosen are miniatures, nothing lasting more than six minutes, but the complexity of much of the music offers a challenge to which he rises with virtuosity and panache.Isaac Albeniz composed his opera "Merlin" to a libretto by an eccentric English banker, Francis Burdett Money-Coutts.
The bawdy comic libretto (she ordered her plastic surgeon to "Supersize me") gave way in the second half to a dark verismo.
The composer had to overcome not only his fear of the critics—among them the great Turgenev, who had once said he would give both little fingers for one line of the poem and who was indeed scathing about the subsequent libretto.
It consists of poetry (often the briefest of fragments), a selection of essays, including several about authors from classical antiquity, and even the libretto of an opera.Ms Carson's tone is light, teasing and playful.
On Monday night, however, the Metropolitan Opera in New York presented "The Death of Klinghoffer", a new production of an opera first staged in 1991, with a score from Mr Adams, original direction from Mr Sellars and a libretto by Alice Goodman.
Her troubadours' epic, "L'Amour de Loin", for which Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese author, wrote the libretto, and which premiered to great acclaim at Salzburg two years ago, has its American opening on July 27th, starring Dawn Upshaw and Gerald Finley.
