librettist

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Recent Examples of librettist Their liberating actions are symbolic by design, according to Davis and librettist Havis. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026 Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic, and videomaker. Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025 The librettist Gene Scheer thinned this fat, meaty book down to a fleet skeleton, organizing the characters into shifting pairs. Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 Heggie credits the late playwright/librettist Terrence McNally, who came prepared with ideas for possible productions and advocated for Prejean’s book as source material. Georgia Rowe, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for librettist
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Noun
  • The film features original songs and score by composers/lyricists Sharon Kenny and Kirsten Guenther, who are also collaborating on an upcoming stage musical produced by Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door/The Carlson Company.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 11 May 2026
  • When Willis took over as lyricist for 1978’s Cruisin’ and 1979’s Go West, the group’s messaging became less lucidly gay.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • In other circumstances, history (or, at least, classical-music buffs) would remember him as Kapellmeister to the Emperor of Austria, a skilled court composer of some forty operas, and a mentor to Beethoven and Schubert.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Moore is a multiaward-winning saxophone player, and Wheeler is a Grammy-winning producer, composer and keyboard virtuoso.
    Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • The neighborhood, called Jabal al-Joufeh, was historically home to merchants, politicians, and poets.
    Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • Focusing on Vahdat’s repertoire of classical settings for verse by great Persian poets both ancient (Hafez, Rumi) and contemporary (Forough Farrokhzad), as well as songs she’s gathered from Iran’s various ethnic groups, the project includes percussionist Nariman Assadi on tombak and daf.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • As the most discerning, up-to-the-minute voice in all things travel, Condé Nast Traveler is the global citizen’s bible and muse, offering both inspiration and vital intel.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
  • What Raúl doesn’t know is what comes next, which is troubling news for Bonifacio’s real-life analogue, his longtime muse and partner Santí (Quim Gutiérrez).
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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