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 show was created by composer Joe Kinosian and lyricist Kellen Blair, who co-wrote its book.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • This 1787 imagining, by architect and designer Felice Soave and Giocondo Albertolli, was the setting for a love affair between Giuditta Cantù Turino, the frescoist Appiano’s great-niece, and Vincenzo Bellini, Italy’s most romantic and melodramatic operatic composer.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Not long after, a composer texted to say how the same director had just brought up his name and love for the short.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • During the Grand Tour era in the 18th century, poets, painters, and aristocrats flocked here to admire the city’s ancient ruins and baroque art and architecture—still valid reasons to visit now, though today’s travelers will find plenty of modern pleasures as well.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Robb Report, 4 June 2026
  • Interest in the author’s life can curdle into obsession, as in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers, in which the narrator embraces any deception necessary to acquire the letters of a dead poet.
    Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 4 June 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, 2 June 2026
  • Zendaya’s stylist Law Roach managed to source an oxblood floral gown that his longtime muse wore for a Met Gala afterparty last year, as well.
    Bianca Betancourt, CNN Money, 2 June 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 7 Jun. 2026.

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