Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The author of a libretto.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of librettos; one who writes the words for an extended musical composition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes a libretto.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person who writes a
libretto .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
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Examples
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GO: Yes - the librettist is my brother, Ruben Ortiz.
Opera Today 2010
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GO: Yes - the librettist is my brother, Ruben Ortiz.
Opera Today gary@operatoday.com 2010
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Brooks works closely with collaborators, such as librettist Thomas Meehan and director-choreographer Susan Stroman, much like author Mary Shelley, whose 1818 gothic novel, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, came out of a ghost-story writing contest with Lord Byron and other 19th-century intellectuals.
A Monster Classic Kittenplan, Susan 2007
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Of his new handle "librettist," Shanley told Playbill Radio, "It's a really interesting job and it's a really interesting art form.
Playbill.com : News 2008
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Of his new handle "librettist," Shanley told Playbill Radio, "It's a really interesting job and it's a really interesting art form.
Playbill.com : News 2008
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As a librettist, McClatchy has often done adaptations, working with Ned Rorem on Wilder's Our Town also a Jacobs School production and on The Magic Flute.
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Benjamin R. Barber 2011
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To be present at Indiana University for the world premiere of Vincent, a powerfully affecting opera by composer Bernard Rands and librettist J. D. McClatchy, is to remember again why Wagner insisted that "the highest perfection is reserved for the musically arranged drama."
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Benjamin R. Barber 2011
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Rands has found an ideal partner in J.D. McClatchey, a renowned poet with a strong if somewhat melancholy voice, but who as a librettist has used his command of language to select and render fit for musical setting the texts of others he is not the editor of the Yale Review for nothing!
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Benjamin R. Barber 2011
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In "The Scottsboro Boys," Messrs. Kander and Ebb (who died in 2004 while writing the musical) and David Thompson, the show's librettist, have compressed this complicated sequence of events into a lengthy one-act musical that makes use of all the theatrical conventions of the old-fashioned blackface minstrel shows that were popular well into the 20th century.
A Perilous Page of History to Turn Terry Teachout 2010
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Rands has found an ideal partner in J.D. McClatchey, a renowned poet with a strong if somewhat melancholy voice, but who as a librettist has used his command of language to select and render fit for musical setting the texts of others he is not the editor of the Yale Review for nothing!
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Benjamin R. Barber 2011
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