libretto
Composers set the libretto to music. This topic is part of Opera within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
libretto trivia questions
A libretto is the written text of what?
Answer: Opera or musical stage work
Bonus fact: It includes sung words and often stage dialogue.
Who writes a libretto?
Answer: Librettist
Bonus fact: Composers set the libretto to music.
The word libretto comes from Italian and means roughly what?
Answer: Little book
Bonus fact: Printed libretti were once sold to audiences.
What is the text or script of an opera called?
Answer: Libretto
Bonus fact: Libretto literally means little book in Italian.
Who composed L'Orfeo?
Answer: Claudio Monteverdi
Bonus fact: Opera: music by Claudio Monteverdi with libretto by Alessandro Striggio.
Which Shakespeare play inspired Verdi’s opera "Otello"?
Answer: Othello
Bonus fact: Arrigo Boito wrote the libretto, condensing Shakespeare’s tragedy for the operatic stage.