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Category: Arts & Culture
Italian:
“booklet”
Plural:
librettos or libretti
Key People:
Richard Wagner
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
William Congreve
W. H. Auden
Bertolt Brecht
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libretto, text of an opera, operetta, or other kind of musical theatre. It is also used, less commonly, for a musical work not intended for the stage. A libretto may be in verse or in prose; it may be specially designed for a particular composer, or it may provide raw material for several; it may be wholly original or an adaptation of an existing play or novel. Writing a libretto demands techniques different from those for writing spoken drama. Music moves at a slower pace than speech, and an orchestra can suggest emotions that would need to be made explicit ...(100 of 791 words)

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