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Recent Examples of librettist
Advertisement *** Schoenberg’s wife, Gertrud, a librettist, and son Larry established Belmont Music Publishers in 1965.
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Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The original version of Sunset Blvd., which Webber developed with librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton in the early 1990s, premiered with director Trevor Nunn on the West End in 1993.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
The letter was to Jennens, the Messiah’s librettist.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
That same year Smith wed the playwright and librettist Beverly Cross, who predeceased her in 1998.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024
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Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The original version of Sunset Blvd., which Webber developed with librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton in the early 1990s, premiered with director Trevor Nunn on the West End in 1993.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
The letter was to Jennens, the Messiah’s librettist.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
That same year Smith wed the playwright and librettist Beverly Cross, who predeceased her in 1998.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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Her second film, The Lyricist Wannabe, is a semi-autobiographical comedy drama about a young woman attempting to become a Canto-pop lyricist.—
Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
16 Mar. 2025
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The unlikely revolutionaries The lyricist is named Ayman al-Masri, 52.—
Jawad Rizkallah,
NPR,
5 Mar. 2025
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The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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Boulez at 100–Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat: A celebration of the centennial of composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, with music for two pianos.—
Jake Richardson,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The poet, who died in 1976, injects mournful omniscience into explorations of heartache.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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The awards were founded in 1935 by poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf and continue to be managed by the Cleveland Foundation.—
Sam Allard,
Axios,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Her muse and favorite model was German actress and singer Traute Rose (1903-1989), featured in intimate paintings such as My Studio and At the Mirror.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Apparently Gabriele D’Annunzio, the poet, saw her and thought, this woman is my muse.—
Dodie Kazanjian,
Vogue,
14 Mar. 2025
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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