Noun
The word is derived from libretto
of Libretto
Source: Webster's dictionaryBraunbehrens pp. 28–29 Early Viennese period and operas (1770–1778) Following the modest success of Le donne letterate Salieri received new commissions writing two additional operas in 1770 both with libretti by Boccherini. Source: Internet
During this period of imperial change in Vienna and revolutionary ferment in France, Salieri composed two additional extremely innovative musical dramas to libretti by Giovanni Casti. Source: Internet
Because of their atonal music which uses tonal conventions harkening back to late romanticism citation and tragic libretti, Berg's masterworks Wozzeck and Lulu have stayed in the repertory and assumed increased popularity after his death. Source: Internet
As the printing of libretti for sale at performances became more common, these records often survive better than music left in manuscript. Source: Internet
Before such elements were forced out of opera seria, many libretti had featured a separately unfolding comic plot as sort of an "opera-within-an-opera." Source: Internet
By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto (or "poem", as Wagner liked to call his libretti ). Source: Internet