Crossword-Solution: LIBRETTISTS 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Pursuing the search chronologically, the librettists next came upon Cain and Abel, who offered a more fruitful subject for dramatic and musical invention.

Verga aims to awaken at least a tittle of extenuation and a spark of sympathy for Turiddu by showing us his filial love in conflict with his willingness to make reparation to Alfio; Mascagni and his librettists do more by showing us the figure of the young soldier blending a request for a farewell kiss from his mother with a prayer for protection for the woman he has wronged.

Signori Illica and Giacosa, librettists in ordinary to Ricordi & Co., took the work of making the opera book in hand.

Neither Loti nor Long troubles us with the details of so prosaic a thing as the marriage ceremony; but Puccini and his librettists make much of it, for it provides the only opportunity for a chorus and the musician had found delightfully mellifluous Japanese gongs to add a pretty touch of local color to the music.

Belasco which Puccini and his librettists followed; but in view of the origin of the play a bit of comparative criticism seems to be imperative.