1. Librettos nerve-deafness Escudero Bagwigs emollients linoleums

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.