Definitions for librettos

librettos li·bret·to

Spelling: [li-bret-oh]
IPA: /lɪˈbrɛt oʊ/

Librettos is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 576 anagrams from letters in librettos (beilorstt).

Definitions for librettos

noun

  1. the text or words of an opera or similar extended musical composition.
  2. a book or booklet containing such a text.

Origin of librettos

1735-45; Italian, diminutive of libro book Latin liber; see -et

Examples for librettos

The music is lost, but the libretto survives, and that is enough to account for the collapse.

Watching the court appearance was, to the untrained eye, like watching a German opera without a libretto.

And he has written a grand opera on a mediæval theme to his own libretto.

The summer was devoted to the composition of Belshazzar, for which Jennens had supplied the libretto.

Ideas for a novel, the notes I took when working with a composer on the libretto for an opera I did in 2008.

I do not claim that our libretto was good poetry but it served as a vehicle for the tunes.

He also seized the opportunity of offering him a libretto for a new oratorio.

I own a CD, have heard it, and have read the libretto three or four times.

He did not notice that the binding which held the libretto was tricolored.

In writing the libretto I had become acquainted with the actresses.

Word Value for librettos
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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