How to Use libretto in a Sentence

libretto

noun

• Even the text of the libretto seems weary of the trope.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• A composer friend of Black’s had the idea to make a rock opera about the quilt, and asked Black to write the libretto.
  — Daniel Wenger, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2017
• That led to the intake form as a jumping-off point for the libretto.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 5 May 2018
• The spareness of the libretto takes some getting use to.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022
• There are no traces of the meadows, or the woodland murmurs the libretto refers to.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• The restaurant’s menu and its 500 wines are his libretto.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• The Fly into a two-act opera, with a libretto by David Henry Hwang, in 2008.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2022
• Nottage has stripped down her play to a tight libretto.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 31 Jan. 2022
• The opera unfolds in 13 scenes over two acts to a vivid libretto by Hilary Blecher and Migdalia Cruz.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2017
• For a work that lasts 100 minutes, the entire libretto fits on three pages, and that’s using large type.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• So ‘Darkest Hour’ tries to deal with that in its libretto and — in a very real way — wrestles with that.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• That’s the best way to be sure that the music and the libretto complement one another.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Sondheim reminds us of what’s possible when the high points of a score are tethered to the high points in a libretto.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
• It was based on the 1995 movie, but the lyrics and libretto were written by Wong, who also directed.
  — Karen Ho, GQ, 27 June 2018
• Morley sings the title role in the opera, composed by Matthew Aucoin and with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl based on her 2003 play.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• The libretto is by Hilary Blecher, with lyrics and monologues by Migdalia Cruz.
  — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2020
• Since the opera is still three years away and the libretto is not completely set, Frank is in the very early stages of composing the music.
  — Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 3 Aug. 2017
• Quaid’s libretto and Schlosberg’s treatment of it are more sure of themselves.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The first sequence is in Latin, and while there’s a translation in the libretto, it’s meant to roll over you, its quaestiones part of a pulchra mundi.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2022
• Jenny O'Connell's to-the-point libretto both make a strong impression.
  — Terry Blain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
• Melanie Challenger compiled the libretto, and the music is by James Whitbourn.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
• Because there is no dialogue in the book, much of the libretto is invented.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• Glam rock always has a story to tell, and has that powerful voice with a little hint of libretto.
  — Da'shan Smith, Billboard, 18 May 2017
• Among the people the Dutchman meets at the bar is Daland — in the libretto a sea captain and the father of the opera’s heroine, Senta, but here a clean-cut, middle-class man.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2021
• The hulking singer's story has more plot twists than an Italian libretto.
  — Ashley Vaughan, CNN, 1 June 2018
• The projection of the libretto on the screen was a great help in following this unfamiliar tale.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
• The musical’s libretto is adapted from a 70-page sliver of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and set to an electropop opera score.
  — Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 11 June 2017
• His protégée Marcela Fuentes-Berain wrote the libretto.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Thus, as staged without the buildup that comes with a full libretto, the ending wasn’t going to have the usual climactic impact.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• In addition to writing the libretto for these shows, Smith often appears as a narrator and the lone voice on stage.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2019

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024