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Recent Examples of librettist
Conducted by Kamna Gupta, the opera is a collaboration between composer Jonathan Berger, visual artist Enrico Riley and poet/librettist Vievee Francis.
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Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
The opera was written by composer Zach Redler and librettist Jerre Dye and conceived in 2015 by Sgt.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Applicants who were previously selected for the workshop will present and receive feedback on the musical book and songs from their original musical from a panel of composers, producers and librettists.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
His wife, the librettist Maria Eotvosne Mezei, announced his death.
—A.j. Goldmann, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
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Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
The opera was written by composer Zach Redler and librettist Jerre Dye and conceived in 2015 by Sgt.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Applicants who were previously selected for the workshop will present and receive feedback on the musical book and songs from their original musical from a panel of composers, producers and librettists.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
His wife, the librettist Maria Eotvosne Mezei, announced his death.
—A.j. Goldmann, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
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It’s cemented: Ka is one of the best lyricists to ever walk the planet.Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2024
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Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater were behind the film’s music.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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Ellison serves as the film’s composer as well as director.Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
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Whether Tammy was a sympathetic victim or a crass criminal seemed to depend on the scene and the song, and unfortunately, those songs from a composer by the name of Elton John were not exactly praise-worthy.EW Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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The poet, too, filled his darkness with a divine stream of words, and through these words a whole cosmos spun into view.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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The exhibition’s title Sailing to Byzantium comes from a 1927 poem by William Butler Yeats, where the poet uses a sea voyage to Byzantium as a metaphor for a spiritual journey.Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Fortuna, the goddess of fortune and luck, serves as the muse for this exquisite piece, seamlessly blending elegance with the whims of fate.Catherine Santino, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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By his final run for the project, in October, the all-too-familiar streets of his neighborhood had become a prison of his own creation, the stickman equal parts muse and tyrant.Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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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 21 Dec. 2024.
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