librettos in English
noun
1
the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
Whether in opera libretti from Mozart to Verdi or in the wind and percussion sections of the modern orchestra, Western music has gathered elements of the Islamic world as if to strip them of their differences.
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2. (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music) Opera librettos, or texts, have been based on mythology, history, Biblical accounts, and fiction.
3. Evelyn is an opera singer and Huguet argues that "the text suggests that, in finding direct inspiration in librettos, she has merely learnt to Attitudinize through life"; her art allows her to exist through "contrived representations of her life" (25)--Evelyn is always playing at life and is blind to the sincerity of others.