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Recent Examples of librettist
The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
That anniversary is also invoked by new contemporary opera from librettist Lionelle Hamanaka and composer Daniel Kessner that ecounts the era of wrongful imprisonment via one Southern California family.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
But the new opera’s librettist was a Jew.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
There’s also a world premiere of The Tower of Babel (May 8), a new community opera commissioned from composer-librettist Carla Lucero that will take place free of charge at the downtown Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels under the baton of Conlon.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
That anniversary is also invoked by new contemporary opera from librettist Lionelle Hamanaka and composer Daniel Kessner that ecounts the era of wrongful imprisonment via one Southern California family.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
But the new opera’s librettist was a Jew.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
There’s also a world premiere of The Tower of Babel (May 8), a new community opera commissioned from composer-librettist Carla Lucero that will take place free of charge at the downtown Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels under the baton of Conlon.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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Hip-hop-heads got to see two respected lyricists going for blood, and proponents of Shaderoom-style gossip had more than enough drama to feed off of.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
30 Apr. 2025
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This year, the tributes go to Tina Landau, an award-winning playwright, lyricist and director, and Tony Award winner Idina Menzel.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
27 May 2025
Noun
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For example, in an exclusive with Vanity Fair, Chu teases two brand new songs written by original Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz that will be featured in the film.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
4 June 2025
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No Time for Despair, the artist's debut exhibition with the gallery, presenting new paintings, ceramic sculptures and benches alongside a ew sound piece made in collaboration with composer Alex Gruz.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
Noun
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The celebrated poet first visited Medu in disguise.—
Katie Mitchell,
Essence,
7 June 2025
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Both essays and verse by celebrated writers and poets—a nod to Toni Morrison’s ’70s anthology, The Black Book. —HM Whole Food Cooking Every Day by Amy Chaplin The best cookbook for… becoming a whole foods evangelist.—
Hayley Maitland,
Vogue,
7 June 2025
Noun
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Filled with uncanny creatures and unintelligible language, the book's inspiration came, Serafini muses, either from aliens, or his cat.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
30 May 2025
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The young man is at a crossroads between pursuing shallow, glitzy easy money, or being true to his emotional and artistic muses.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
27 May 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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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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