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Recent Examples of librettist
His work as a novelist and librettist continued until the turn of the century.
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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
The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center’s social impact team also spearheaded an effort to commission new works by Black composers and librettists.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
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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
The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center’s social impact team also spearheaded an effort to commission new works by Black composers and librettists.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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Hawke portrays Rodgers’ former collaborator, lyricist Lorenz Hart, an alcoholic and marginally closeted raconteur grappling with the fact that Rodgers’ biggest success now belongs to a new partnership with Oscar Hammerstein.—
Yamillah Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Ashman was the lyricist behind a number of Disney’s biggest successes, including Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, in addition to Beauty and the Beast.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Of the 13, only composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer won an Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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From 1947 to 1954, Jenkins hosted summer music conferences in Steinhall, which brought together top composers and teachers to discuss music composition, materials, and new music trends.—
Sarah Biegelsen,
Kansas City Star,
14 Sep. 2025
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Finzi, co-director of Doc Society, asked Falley to offer a recommendation of one of Gibson’s books for those interested in exploring the late poet’s works.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
13 Sep. 2025
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An outer wall of the exhibit includes commentary through the centuries from great poets and scholars about the awe-inspiring site.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Following that fiasco, Ansari began work on directing a new feature inspired by yet another sociological muse.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
7 Sep. 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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