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Recent Examples of librettist
Composer Jasmine Barnes and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P.
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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
Schwartz, together with composers, lyricists and librettists Irene Sankoff & David Hein (Come From Away) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire), will perform and tell stories about songs that had to be sacrificed to better serve the musical.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025
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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
Schwartz, together with composers, lyricists and librettists Irene Sankoff & David Hein (Come From Away) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire), will perform and tell stories about songs that had to be sacrificed to better serve the musical.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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Blue Moon stars Hawke as a fictionalized version of Lorenz Hart, the brilliant lyricist who worked alongside composer Richard Rodgers before Rodgers teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein II.—
Kyle McGovern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The show features a score from EGOT-winning lyricist Tim Rice and songwriters Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA fame) — features a book by Dopesick creator Danny Strong.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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That driving tension and anxiety are largely thanks to the team of artisans, which included composer Volker Bertelmann, editor Kirk Baxter and sound designer Paul Ottosson, who worked closely behind the scenes on their respective crafts to bring it together.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
25 Oct. 2025
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The character of John Russell is a music composer, but Scott wasn't musically inclined.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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Over the years, the festival has expanded to include artists, musicians, storytellers, poets, and more, all focused on a theme relevant to the social, religious, and political needs of the Louisville community and beyond.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Chefitz was a mountain climber, soccer player, cross-country motorcyclist, flamenco guitarist, writer and poet — to name just some of his hobbies.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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A lot of viewers found her the most captivating presence in Part 1 of the doc, with obvious screen charisma that established her as a leading lady after all these years — playing a character that Hollywood couldn’t have invented better, the manager-muse.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 Oct. 2025
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Ward was the designer's muse and collaborator throughout the 90s and 2000s, according to Dazed.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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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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