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The Italian word libretto (pronounced, plural libretti) is the diminutive of the word libro ("book"). Sometimes other-language equivalents are used for libretti in that language, livret for French works, Textbuch for German and libreto for Spanish.
for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon (first Rameau opera by that name), Les Boréades, Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Naïs, La naissance d'Osiris, Zaïs, Zoroastre; Henri Caïn (1859–1937) alone: for Jules Massenet: Cendrillon, La Navarraise, Don Quichotte, Roma, Sapho; for Franco Alfano: Cyrano di Bergerac
Libretto by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili: 118 Ho fuggito Amore anch'io London, c. 1722–23 Printed without final aria in HG. Libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli 119 Echeggiate, festeggiate, numi eterni or Io languisco fra le gioie London, c. 1710–12 Partly lost. Fragments printed in wrong order in HG. 120a Irene, idolo mio Italy, 1707–09
An electronic libretto system is used primarily in opera houses and is a device which presents translations of lyrics into an audience's language or transcribes lyrics that may be difficult to understand when sung.
Arrigo Boito. Arrigo Boito (Italian: [arˈriːɡo ˈbɔito]; born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; [1] 24 February 1842 – 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele.
Gustavo III is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto begun in early 1857 by the Italian playwright Antonio Somma.Never performed as written, the libretto was later revised (or proposed to be revised) several times under two additional names – Una vendetta in dominò and Adelia degli Adimari – during which the setting was changed to vastly different locations.
Other works include: Libretto for Jacopo Peri's opera Dafne, first performed early in 1598. The pastorale, Euridice, used as the libretto for Peri's opera, Euridice, and Giulio Caccini's opera of the same name. Libretto for Claudio Monteverdi's L'Arianna, first performed in 1608.
Demetrio is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was first performed to music composed by Antonio Caldara on 4 November 1731 during celebrations of the name day of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in Vienna. Different composers later used it when composing operas named Alceste, Cleonice and Demetrio, rè della Siria. With ...