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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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In 1977, Strouse founded the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, through which many young composers and lyricists honed their craft and developed their work.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
15 May 2025
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The 45-year-old wrestler first revealed his love for the women lyricists in the game back in October on an episode of Celtic Warrior Workouts with fellow WWE superstar Sheamus.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
8 May 2025
Noun
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The cellist and composer, 36, makes music out of noise others might wish to tune out: turn-signal clicks, a far-off tornado siren test, the hums of refrigerators.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
10 May 2025
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The family of the late record producer and composer is selling his longtime residence in the coveted Lower Bel Air enclave of Los Angeles for $60 million.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
9 May 2025
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The foundation also recognized the poet and activist Galal El-Behairy with the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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Poe: This one-syllable name, inspired by The Raven poet, could be a match for parents seeking a bookish name or one with a soft-gothic feel.—
Anna Earl,
Parents,
15 May 2025
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After watching The Sopranos and documentaries on everyone from infamous female drug dealers to former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Never Have I Ever star finally found her muse from an unlikely place: The Real Housewives of Orange County.—
Madeleine Janz,
People.com,
8 May 2025
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Something of a curiosity within Antonioni’s oeuvre, the shot-on-video Mystery of Oberwald marked the final collaboration between Vitti and the director who anointed her his muse.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
6 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 23 May. 2025.
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