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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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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