How to Use librettist in a Sentence

librettist

noun

• The chorus refused to sing, the police were called and the librettist was arrested in the melee.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• Medvedev, the librettist, died days after the 2010 premiere.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
• Terry was an artist in his own right, as an opera librettist and playwright.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• The other four are from male composers and librettists.
  — Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 26 Apr. 2018
• All of that comes after the work on the script, adapted by the stage version’s librettist Steven Levenson.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• The bride, 29, is a musical theater lyricist and the groom, also 29, is a librettist.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2018
• Not long before the movie came out, in 1950, Livingston met and married her first husband, the librettist Alan Jay Lerner.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• Composer and librettist were in fact making sizable changes to the text and score during the rehearsals.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• Of course, the historical subject of Joan of Arc was for Verdi and his librettist both distant and not.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• But about 10 years ago, Dean put aside his reservations and began to tackle the play, with Matthew Jocelyn by his side as librettist.
  — New York Times, 15 May 2022
• And while Hollywood tried to bring some closure to the play’s plethora of conflicts, Bolcom and librettist Mark Campbell do not.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 12 Mar. 2017
• Brock is a screenwriter, poet and opera librettist, and D’Agostino is an actor and writer.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 26 Aug. 2021
• The composer and librettist Adolf Hoffmeister wrote the work in the Prague ghettos in 1938, and children in a Nazi concentration camp performed it.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2019
• Puts wondered if the job was for him – until librettist Mark Campbell presented him with a draft for the libretto’s first act.
  — Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2017
• Its composer, Dmitri Shostakovich, lost much of his work, and its librettist, Adrian Piotrovsky, was shot.
  — Alice Robb, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• With the help of librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, Strauss imagined what the title character’s state of mind and heart must have been like between her father’s murder and the time when a plot for revenge is hatched.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2019
• Composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson wrote the best new opera that barely anyone saw.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• And his mind meld with his book writers and librettists is just extraordinary.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• The great benefit of Mosebach’s reflection on the Mass springs out of his vocation as a storyteller and librettist.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
• The other librettist, documentary filmmaker Kimberly Reed, was once a boy named Paul, whose life is the basis for the piece.
  — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2018
• At first glance, Stravinsky and his librettist, Jean Cocteau, follow the ancient sources in casting Oedipus’ downfall as the necessary outcome of fate.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 June 2021
• This free family opera by composer/librettist Marc Hoffeditz explores themes of weather science, climate change, and care for the Earth.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• From the very earliest days of opera, composers and librettists have turned to literature and poets for inspiration and plot lines.
  — David Lyman, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2018
• The scenic environments of a dramatic work may emanate from the composer and librettist, but they are achieved—or not—by other artists who should be acknowledged.
  — Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
• Dean and his librettist, Matthew Jocelyn, finesse the problem with a strategy of self-consciousness.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• This involves not only a new look at beloved classics but the overdue discovery of works by female composers and librettists who reject or transform the rigid model for women.
  — Amy Lorette Damron Kyle, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
• Ms. Kron, 55, who already has an impressive body of work, won for most promising musical theater librettist.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2017
• Nine years and many triumphant openings later, Gilbert, the librettist, took umbrage at the extravagance of the rug that Carte had installed in the Savoy’s lobby, and wound up in an intense dispute with Sullivan, the composer.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• The librettist, Mark Campbell, tells the story of Jobs in 18 non-chronological vignettes; his through-line is how an obsessive, controlling, closed-off person learned to be human.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2017
• After a standing ovation, Jackson, Smith, some of the performers, the director, the librettist, the composer, the conductor, and Godsey came back onstage and answered questions.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024