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Classical Field In Classical Categories, composers and lyricists/librettists are now eligible for GRAMMY recognition alongside all other key creative personnel including artists, producers, and engineers on winning albums.
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Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 June 2025
Composer Jasmine Barnes and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
His work as a novelist and librettist continued until the turn of the century.
—Pablo Maurer, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Huang is a playwright and librettist whose work includes Mother of Exiles, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, and Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
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Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 June 2025
Composer Jasmine Barnes and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
His work as a novelist and librettist continued until the turn of the century.
—Pablo Maurer, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Huang is a playwright and librettist whose work includes Mother of Exiles, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, and Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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The movie, which also stars Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and Bobby Cannavale, sees Hawke portray 20th century lyricist and songwriter Lorenz Hart.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and second drummer Hart joined the group in 1967.—
Erin Osmon,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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McIntosh, a brilliant composer who has a sideline as a virtuoso early-music violinist, revelled in the microtonal shadings that Feldman built into his notation.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Oscar-winning composer Daniel Blumberg was tasked with layering in claps, stomps and screams.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Vasyakina is a Russian poet and curator.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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Their film tells the love story of poets Andrea Gibson and Meg Falley and how the couple managed to confront Gibson’s terminal cancer diagnosis with grace, bravery, and humor.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That’s the side Charli says makes Consani a muse.—
Derek C. Blasberg,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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The man who was in love with beauty, his family, his muses, his friends.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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