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Recent Examples of librettist
Their liberating actions are symbolic by design, according to Davis and librettist Havis.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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The show was created by composer Joe Kinosian and lyricist Kellen Blair, who co-wrote its book.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 May 2026
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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
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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
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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
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If experimental and vanguard poetry is set on fragmenting the lyric I, verse plays and poet’s theater redistribute it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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That task was best tackled by the great Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, whose tribute, published in the Jornal do Brasil, captured the nuances of the collective mood.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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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
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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
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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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