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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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No two lyricists write lyrics the same way, just as no two novelists write novels the same way.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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The Atlanta lyricist fit the record like a glove, in large part because the Bronx star mentioned her in the original version by name.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Warren hosted dinner parties in the residence, located at the base of Coit Tower, that attracted movie stars, best-selling authors, opera divas, aristocrats, photographers and composers.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Charismatic Qatari singer and composer Dana Al Meer, already a veteran of the 2022 men’s soccer world World Cup and 2023 Asian Cup opening ceremonies, came in third.—
Camilla Wright,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Roundup Ten Poems by Audre Lorde The esteemed poet is author of Sister Outsider, one title on the Schomburg Black Liberation Reading List.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Oct. 2025
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Zweig is a filmmaker, journalist, and poet based in Mexico City.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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Many surrealist artists cast women as muses or dream figures conjured for the male gaze.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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In both cases, their cultish devotion to a spouse has generated enduring curiosity, part of which may be envy, since many women have aspired to serve as a muse to genius.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 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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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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