LIBRETTOS

Meaning of LIBRETTOS in English

pl of libretto.

Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

LIBRETTOS — (pl. ) of Libretto
Английский словарь Webster
LIBRETTOS — ( pl. ) of Libretto
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
LIBRETTOS — Либретто
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WAGNER, (WILHELM) RICHARD — born May 22, 1813, Leipzig, Ger. died Feb. 13, 1883, Venice, Italy German composer. His childhood was divided between Dresden …
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STEIN, GERTRUDE — born Feb. 3, 1874, Allegheny City, Pa., U.S. died July 27, 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France U.S. avant-garde writer. Born to a …
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SCRIBE, (AUGUSTIN) EUGÈNE — born Dec. 24, 1791, Paris, France died Feb. 20, 1861, Paris French playwright and librettist. He wrote some 350 dramas, …
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MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS — orig. Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart born Jan. 27, 1756, Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg died Dec. 5, 1791, Vienna Austrian …
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METASTASIO, PIETRO — orig. Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi born Jan. 3, 1698, Rome died April 12, 1782, Vienna Italian poet and opera librettist. …
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LULLY, JEAN-BAPTISTE — orig. Giovanni Battista Lulli born Nov. 28, 1632, Florence died March 22, 1687, Paris, France Italian-born French composer. He was …
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LINDSAY, HOWARD — born March 29, 1889, Waterford, N.Y., U.S. died Feb. 11, 1968, New York, N.Y. U.S. playwright, actor, and producer known …
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DA PONTE, LORENZO — orig. Emanuele Conegliano born March 10, 1749, Céneda, near Treviso, Veneto died Aug. 17, 1838, New York, N.Y., U.S. Italian …
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CONNELLY, MARC(US COOK) — born Dec. 13, 1890, McKeesport, Pa., U.S. died Dec. 21, 1980, New York, N.Y. U.S. playwright, screenwriter, and director. He …
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CONGREVE, WILLIAM — born Jan. 24, 1670, Bardsey, near Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng. died Jan. 19, 1729, London English dramatist. He was a young …
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COCTEAU, JEAN — born July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, France died Oct. 11, 1963, Milly-la-Forêt, near Paris French poet, playwright, and film …
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CLAUDEL, PAUL (-LOUIS-CHARLES-MARIE) — born Aug. 6, 1868, Villeneuve-sur-Fère, France died Feb. 23, 1955, Paris French poet, playwright, and diplomat. He converted to Catholicism …
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AUDEN, W(YSTAN) H(UGH) — born Feb. 21, 1907, York, Yorkshire, Eng. died Sept. 29, 1973, Vienna, Austria British-born U.S. poet and man of letters. …
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TO — I. _tə, before a vowel following without pause often or regularly təw, after a vowel usually d.ə(w), after a vȯiced …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LIBRETTO — /li bret"oh/ , n. , pl. librettos, libretti /-bret"ee/ . 1. the text or words of an opera or similar …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
UNDINE — also spelled Ondine mythological figure of European tradition, a water nymph who becomes human when she falls in love with …
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ORATORIO — a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semisacred subject, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. An oratorio's text is …
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OPERA BUFFA — (Italian: comic opera), genre of comic opera originating in Naples in the mid-18th century. It developed from the intermezzi, or …
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OPERA
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LIBRETTO — ( (Italian: booklet), ) plural Librettos, or Libretti, text of an opera, operetta, or other kind of musical theatre. It …
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TIAN HAN — born March 12, 1898, Ch'ang-sha, Hunan province, China died Dec. 10, 1968, Peking Wade-Giles T'ien Han, pseudonym of Tian Shouchang …
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PLOMER, WILLIAM (CHARLES FRANKLYN) — born Dec. 10, 1903, Transvaal, S.Af. died Sept. 21, 1973, Lewes, East Sussex, Eng. South African-born British man of letters, …
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MAFFEI, FRANCESCO SCIPIONE, MARCHESE DI — (marquess of) born June 1, 1675, Verona, republic of Venice [now in Italy] died Feb. 11, 1755, Verona Italian dramatist, …
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HALEVY, LUDOVIC
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CASTI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA — born Aug. 29, 1724, Acquapendente, Papal States died Feb. 5, 1803, Paris Italian poet, satirist, and author of comic opera …
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LIBRETTO — ( librettos, or libretti) The libretto of an opera is the words that are sung in it. ...the author of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
METASTASIO, PIETRO — orig. Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi born Jan. 3, 1698, Rome died April 12, 1782, Vienna Italian poet and opera librettist. …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
LINDSAY, HOWARD — born March 29, 1889, Waterford, N.Y., U.S. died Feb. 11, 1968, New York, N.Y. U.S. playwright, actor, and producer known …
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