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Definition of Libretti
1. libretto [n] - See also: libretto
Lexicographical Neighbors of Libretti
Literary usage of Libretti
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Making of Italy, 1856-1870 by Patrick Keyes O'Clery (1892)
"On the 8th Colonel Charette, with a column of Zouaves and gendarmes, marched upon
Monte libretti and Nerola, it having been reported that both these towns ..."
2. Shakespere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"Prose Descriptions of Masques —Jonson's libretti—H is Quarrels with Jones—Architect
z'ersus Poet — IX. Royal Performers—Professionals in the Anti-Masque. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"Chief of these is Sir Arthur Sullivan, whose operatic fame rests on a long list
of opera buff a, composed to the sparkling libretti of WS Gilbert, ..."
4. Forty Years of Music, 1865-1905 by Joseph Bennett (1908)
"CHAPTER XVIII libretti I make some changes in the libretti of Benedict's "St Peter,"
... libretti ..."
5. The Singing of the Future by David Ffrangcon-Davies, David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies (1905)
"Wagner's libretti and morality, extraordinary drama, extraordinary effect, not
necessarily objectionable.—Singer an artist. —Plato and Wagner. ..."
6. The Lyrical Drama: Essays on Subjects, Composers, & Executants of Modern Opera by Henry Sutherland Edwards (1881)
"libretti. IF the Three Graces had their little rivalries on the subject of personal
attractiveness, it was not to be expected that the Nine Muses, ..."
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