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A libretto is the play to which a composer sets the music. Sometimes it's written by the composer her/himself, more often by someone else. It contains the stage directions and all the words sung by the characters, whether in recitative, continuous dialogue or arias and set-pieces.
The 'libretto' is the words or story of the opera.
In an opera, the libretto is the lyrics to all the music in the opera.
Libretto.
A person who writes the libretto for an opera is simply referred to as the librettist.
The lyrics of an opera are called the "libretto."