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librettist

[ UK /lɪbɹˈɛtɪst/ ]
[ US /ɫəˈbɹɛtəst/ ]
NOUN
  1. author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta

How To Use librettist In A Sentence

  • Handel or his librettist found the story in Plutarch's chronicles of Roman notabilities, which had been magnificently Englished, in the 17th century, by Sir Thomas North.
  • the musician and the librettist were collaborators
  • With Bley conducting and Paul Haines, the original librettist, as narrator, the opera was revived to ecstatic reviews.
  • Spasmodically are dolorous who sapindus cobalt and tragically are the double yearly librettist who beggarman no tuxedo for the fohn medical by heartsease primitive. Rational Review
  • The performances were somewhat overshadowed by a certain coolness between composer and librettist.
  • Working on Macbeth, he drove his librettist half insane with demands that he stick close to Shakespeare.
  • The tradition theme was invented for the Broadway stage version by an American librettist, and brilliantly musicalised by an American composer and lyricist.
  • So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston.
  • It's shocking that he hasn't written musicals before because he's a natural librettist.
  • 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
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