Definitions for libretto

libretto li·bret·to

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

Libretto is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in libretto (beilortt).

Definitions for libretto

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 libretto

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

Examples for libretto

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for libretto
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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