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libretto

[li-bret-oh] / lɪˈbrɛt oʊ /




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Pushkin’s text eventually became the libretto that Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov employed in his opera of the same name.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

Scene 2, a scrim projection informs us, takes place eight years later, moving us back into the time frame of the original libretto.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Six years later, Gershwin persuaded Heyward to help him transform it into an opera—with Heyward writing the libretto and sharing lyric duties with George’s brother, Ira.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The libretto is mostly in vernacular English, except for choral interjections of the Buddhist “Diamond Sutra,” sung in Chinese.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

What’s more, he wrote the libretto as well as the music, and drew up the specifications of the purpose- built theatre at Bayreuth in which it was to be performed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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