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> The earliest operas, beginning in 1597 with Ottavio Rinuccini’s Dafne, set to music by Jacopo Peri, were court entertainments, and as a commemoration the words were printed in a small book, or “libretto.”
> [today] it is text of an opera, operetta, or other kind of musical theatre. It is also used, less commonly, for a musical work not intended for the stage. A libretto may be in verse or in prose; it may be specially designed for a particular composer, or it may provide raw material for several; it may be wholly original or an adaptation of an existing play or novel.
From: https://www.britannica.com/art/libretto
Pages from an 1859 libretto for Ernani, with the original Italian lyrics, English translation and musical notation for one of the arias (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libretto) 0 reply
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