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The 39 pages that link to Libretto, each with the reason it gives.

• OperaRelated: It supplies the words that singers perform and the plot they embody.

• Musical theatreRelated: Its dialogue and lyrics give the production its verbal dramatic structure.

• Italian operaRelated: Italian librettists shape the plots, poetic forms, and dramatic situations set to music.

• Opera seriaNarrower topic: Opera seria’s musical forms depend on a libretto that separates action from reflection.

• Oscar Hammerstein IIRelated: Hammerstein often wrote both the libretto and lyrics, coordinating story with song.

• Giacomo PucciniRelated: Puccini collaborated closely with librettists to shape dramatic pacing and vocal expression.

• Opera buffaRelated: Comic plots and social satire take shape through its words.

• AriaRelated: An aria’s words shape the character, situation, and emotion its music presents.

• Opéra-comiqueRelated: Its dialogue and lyrics together form the text of an opéra-comique.

• Book musicalRelated: It supplies the spoken scenes and lyric text that carry the musical’s dramatic story.

• OratorioRelated: Its words supply the story and shape the work’s musical sections.

• Rock operaRelated: Lyrics and dialogue supply the characters, scenes, and plot that organize the music.

• Jacques OffenbachRelated: Collaborative librettos supplied the topical jokes and plots his music carried.

• Venetian operaNarrower topic: Venetian opera depended on writers who shaped plots for musical and theatrical production.

• CantataRelated: A cantata’s sacred or secular text shapes its sections and musical expression.

• Arrigo BoitoNarrower topic: Boito’s revisions of source texts demonstrate how a libretto is made for musical drama.

• Musical comedyRelated: Its dialogue and lyrics coordinate the comedy with the music.

• Song LyricsCompared with: A libretto spans a dramatic work, while song lyrics usually belong to individual songs.

• Cole PorterRelated: Porter often wrote both the lyrics and music, while collaborators supplied show books.

• Lorenzo Da PonteNarrower topic: Da Ponte’s work belongs to a literary form designed to serve music and performance.

• Henri MeilhacNarrower topic: Meilhac’s theatrical writing often took the form of librettos set by composers.

• Manon LescautNarrower topic: The opera’s libretto compresses and rearranges the source narrative into singable scenes.

• Orpheus in the UnderworldRelated: Ludovic Halévy and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux shaped the myth into satirical dialogue and lyrics.

• Eugène ScribeNarrower topic: His theater career included an unusually large body of texts written for composers.

• Gilbert and SullivanNarrower topic: Gilbert’s librettos determined the stories and verbal rhythms Sullivan set to music.

• Luigi IllicaNarrower topic: Illica’s principal contribution to opera was writing librettos.

• Ottavio RinucciniNarrower topic: Rinuccini’s librettos gave early operas their words, characters, and dramatic structure.

• Adolph GreenRelated: Green contributed books and lyrics that gave Broadway musicals their dramatic structure.

• Betty ComdenRelated: Her librettos supplied plots and dialogue alongside the songs she wrote.

• Giuseppe AdamiNarrower topic: Adami’s principal operatic contribution was writing texts set to Puccini’s music.

• Giuseppe GiacosaNarrower topic: Giacosa’s literary work for Puccini took the form of librettos.

• Cesare SterbiniNarrower topic: Sterbini’s role was to shape the words and dramatic structure Rossini set to music.

• Ruggero LeoncavalloRelated: Leoncavallo’s work as a librettist shaped the tightly constructed dramas he set to music.

• Temistocle SoleraNarrower topic: Solera wrote the words that Verdi shaped into operatic music.

• Antonio GhislanzoniNarrower topic: Ghislanzoni’s opera writing was the craft of shaping words for music and performance.

• Gian Carlo MenottiRelated: Menotti wrote the words as well as the music for many of his stage works.

• Hector-Jonathan CrémieuxNarrower topic: Crémieux’s role was to shape the words, scenes, and comic action sung or spoken onstage.

• Richard GenéeNarrower topic: Genée’s librettos provided plots and dialogue for composers’ music.

• Victor-Joseph Étienne de JouyNarrower topic: De Jouy’s operatic reputation rests on writing texts designed for musical setting.