Libretto
Libretto noun - The words of an opera or musical play.
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Synonyms for Libretto
Title and libretto are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Title" instead a noun "Libretto".
Nearby Word: librettist
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In the libretto of Puccini's Madame Butterfly, the title character's son is described as having blond hair and blue eyes, despite being half-Japanese.
- The libretto for the opera Moses und Aron concludes the story with a third act, but Arnold Schoenberg never composed any music for it, perhaps feeling that the theological conflict between the title characters was unresolvable.
Source: No Ending - In the opera Hänsel und Gretel, the title characters' parents are named "Peter" and "Gertrud" in the Dramatis Personae only; in the libretto, they are always just "Vater" and "Mutter", which they even call each other by.
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Title and Libretto. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/libretto/title
Libretto & Title. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/libretto/title>.
Title or Libretto. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/libretto/title.
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